Gianfranco Cecchin (August 22 1932 - February 2 2004) was an Italian psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and founder - along with Mara Palazzoli , Luigi Boscolo and Giuliana Prata - of the movement of systemic family therapy known today as the "Milan Approach".

'Dare I ask whether Cecchin, Lane and Ray have become the Three Musketeers of family therapy? Beware to all who exercise pompous authority and one-up-gendership in this field. The blind obedience that public-relations-groomed, big-buck workshops stars crave is going to be plagued by these protectors of irreverence.'- From the Foreword by Bradford P. Keeney, Professor and Director of Scholarly Studies University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

• Other Books by the Authors , Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , The Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy , Introduction , A theory of the cybernetics of prejudices , Clinical prejudices , Managing discourse about prejudices: the heart of therapy , Closing comments on the therapeutically correct , Epilogue The last family therapist

Gianfranco Cecchin (August 22 1932 - February 2 2004) was an Italian psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and founder - along with Mara Palazzoli , Luigi Boscolo and Giuliana Prata - of the movement of systemic family therapy known today as the "Milan Approach".

'Dare I ask whether Cecchin, Lane and Ray have become the Three Musketeers of family therapy? Beware to all who exercise pompous authority and one-up-gendership in this field. The blind obedience that public-relations-groomed, big-buck workshops stars crave is going to be plagued by these protectors of irreverence.'- From the Foreword by Bradford P. Keeney, Professor and Director of Scholarly Studies University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

• Other Books by the Authors , Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , The Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy , Introduction , A theory of the cybernetics of prejudices , Clinical prejudices , Managing discourse about prejudices: the heart of therapy , Closing comments on the therapeutically correct , Epilogue The last family therapist

Gianfranco Cecchin (August 22 1932 - February 2 2004) was an Italian psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and founder - along with Mara Palazzoli , Luigi Boscolo and Giuliana Prata - of the movement of systemic family therapy known today as the "Milan Approach".

'Dare I ask whether Cecchin, Lane and Ray have become the Three Musketeers of family therapy? Beware to all who exercise pompous authority and one-up-gendership in this field. The blind obedience that public-relations-groomed, big-buck workshops stars crave is going to be plagued by these protectors of irreverence.'- From the Foreword by Bradford P. Keeney, Professor and Director of Scholarly Studies University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

• Other Books by the Authors , Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , The Cybernetics of Prejudices in the Practice of Psychotherapy , Introduction , A theory of the cybernetics of prejudices , Clinical prejudices , Managing discourse about prejudices: the heart of therapy , Closing comments on the therapeutically correct , Epilogue The last family therapist