Mara Selvini Palazzoli

Mara Selvini Palazzoli ( born August 15, 1916 in Milan, † June 21, 1999 ibid ) was an Italian psychoanalyst. She developed the Milan model, a procedure in systemic family therapy.

Career

Mara Selvini Palazzoli - daughter of Daniele and Italia Palazzoli - studied medicine and then specialized training as an internist at the University Hospital of Milan. In her work, she met young women know who suffered from anorexia nervosa and developed in their treatment psychotherapeutic interest. They first trained as a psychiatrist and started in the early '50s training as a psychoanalyst. The results of this work, however, they are not satisfied, and they began to engage in family therapy.

In 1967, Selvini Palazzoli in cooperation with seven other psychologists and psychoanalysts in Milan, Centro per lo Studio della Famiglia e delle TECNICHE di Gruppo, the first family therapy center of Italy. First, they maintained a psychoanalytic base in therapy, however, involved the family of the patient in therapy with a: In family therapy, the therapist does not rely solely on the subjective statements of the patient, but can the situation also from the point of view of its surroundings. capture The therapeutic work trying to influence the family relationships among members. Later Palazzoli no longer held the psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud's drive theory and his notion of an " original autism" for a meaningful approach to their work, but put the bonds of man in his social environment in the forefront of the " original development of the self."

From 1971 Selvini Palazzoli developed a systemic therapy that became known as the Milan model after the release of paradox and counter- paradox because of their dispute with Bateson's cybernetics and Watzlawick's theory of communication, together with Luigi Boscolo, Gianfranco Cecchin and Giuliana Prata. After the dissolution of their first team in 1980 Selvini Palazzoli founded together with Giuliana Prata 1982, a new institute under the name Nuovo Centro per lo Studio della Famiglia.

Works

  • Mara Selvini - Palazzoli, L' anoressia mental. . Feltrinelli, Milan, 1963 ( English translation: Self- Starvation From the intrapsychic to the Transpersonal Approach to Anorexia Nervosa Aronson, New York 1978 German translation:. .. Anorexia from the treatment of individual to family therapy Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, 8. .. edition, ISBN 3-608-95095-8 )
  • Mara Selvini - Palazzoli (Author ), Luigi Boscolo ( Author), Gianfranco Cecchin (Author) Giuliana Prata (Author ), paradox and counter- paradox, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-608-95375-2.
  • Mara Selvini - Palazzoli (Author ), Luigi Boscolo ( Author), Gianfranco Cecchin (Author) Giuliana Prata (Author ), hypothesizing, circularity, neutrality. Three guidelines for the conductor of the session, 1981.
  • Mara Selvini - Palazzoli, et al. Behind the scenes of the organization, ( 6th ed ), Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3608950141 ISBN 978-3608950144 and
  • Mara Selvini - Palazzoli (Author ), Stefano Cirillo ( Author), Matteo Selvini (Author ), Anna M. Sorrentino (Author ), The psychotic games in the Family, 2nd edition, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-91806 - X.
  • Mara Selvini - Palazzoli (Author ), Stefano Cirillo ( Author), Matteo Selvini (Author ), Anna M. Sorrentino (Author ), anorexia and bulimia. New family therapy perspectives, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-91981-3.
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