Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach. With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to: sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT review and understand the major tenets of SFBT learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it understand treatment applicability read actual session transcripts understand the "miracle scale" get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT better understand SFBT and emotions examine misconceptions about SFBT and more Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach. With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to: sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT review and understand the major tenets of SFBT learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it understand treatment applicability read actual session transcripts understand the "miracle scale" get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT better understand SFBT and emotions examine misconceptions about SFBT and more Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

"Join de Shazer behind the on-way mirror for a fascinating journey into the land of brief therapy, where the emphasis is not on how problems arise, but on how to solve them. His case examples read like well-written detective novels, and his concept of 'skeleton key' interventions is both provocative and promising. This is a book that is firmly grounded in the tradition of Milton Erickson, but that extends Erickson's work into new areas. Highly recommended." —Bill O'Hanlon, Editor, Milton H.Erickson Foundation Newsletter"De Shazer's work is testimony to simplicity and parsimony in the therapeutic art of addressing the complex. The author's sense of delight, curiosity, and utter respect for the human condition and people's capacity for creative problem-solving resound in rich case examples, therapist repertoire, and team cooperation. This book presents a teachable model whose outer edges remain open, flexible, and inviting." —Evan Imber Coppersmith, Ph.D., University of Calgary"De Shazer offers, among other things, an expansion of our horizons by an emphasis on solutions as counterweight to previous emphasis on the origins or the nature of problems, an expansion of one's vision of 'cooperation' in therapy as contrasted to 'resistance,' including ideas about how to work with those vague clients who are otherwise the bane of strategic therapists, and some seminal thoughts on 'formula' interventions. These last, together with the recent work of Mara Selvini Palazzoli, may well mark an important new step." —John H. Weakland, Ch.E., Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto

In explicating how language works in therapy, he ranges widely, citing and critiquing Lacan, Bateson, Ackerman, and Weakland, among others. But the heart of this book can be found in the detailed conversations between client and therapist that show solution-focused therapy in action.

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach.

With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to:

sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions

eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions

gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT

review and understand the major tenets of SFBT

learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it

understand treatment applicability

read actual session transcripts

understand the "miracle scale"

get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT

better understand SFBT and emotions

examine misconceptions about SFBT

and more

Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach.

With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to:

sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions

eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions

gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT

review and understand the major tenets of SFBT

learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it

understand treatment applicability

read actual session transcripts

understand the "miracle scale"

get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT

better understand SFBT and emotions

examine misconceptions about SFBT

and more

Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

Después de un instructivo recorrido por las teorías psicoanalíticas, estructuralistas y sistémicas sobre la función de la palabra y del lenguaje, el autor presenta una gran variedad de casos clínicos de su práctica, que muestran la eficacia del diálogo en la terapia familiar breve.Con mucho sentido del humor y simpatía, De Shazer vuelve en este libro a los orígenes de la psicoterapia para constatar que desde Freud todo el desarrollo de las prácticas terapéuticas se basa en algo misterioso que pasa en el diálogo entre terapeuta y cliente. A partir de las historias que han ido narrando los clientes, los terapeutas, a su vez, han narrado sus historias para construir teorías, en estilos muy diversos según sus visiones del mundo. Pero, en definitiva, se trata de una gran "industria de narrar historias".Para desentrañar ese "misterio" de la palabra y del diálogo, el autor ofrece en la primera parte del libro una serie de interesantes incursiones en las teorías psicoanalíticas, lingüísticas, estructuralistas y sistémicas desde Freud, pasando por Saussure, Lacan, Derrida, Gregory Bateson, Foucault y Emerson. En todos estos enfoques muestra cómo se buscaba la explicación del poder curativo del diálogo en distintos niveles, desde las profundidades del inconsciente hasta la "superficie", persiguiendo en unos casos verdades científicas objetivas y admitiendo, en otros, que las buenas soluciones se encuentran más bien por avances azarosos en los que errores y aciertos pueden ser igualmente fecundos.En la segunda parte del libro, el autor se centra plenamente en la terapia familiar y presenta diferentes criterios y estrategias de la conversación característica del enfoque sistémico. después de ejemplificarlo con casos de Nathan Ackerman, James Gustavson y John H. Weakland, De Shazer ofrece una serie de casos muy detallados de su propia práctica y también uno de su colega Insoo Kim Berg. En las transcripciones de las conversaciones se muestra la técnica y la eficacia de lo que el autor llama "trabajar en la superficie", invitando a los clientes, con preguntas bien orientadas, a encontrar e inventar soluciones a sus problemas.

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach. With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to: sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT review and understand the major tenets of SFBT learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it understand treatment applicability read actual session transcripts understand the "miracle scale" get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT better understand SFBT and emotions examine misconceptions about SFBT and more Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach. With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to: sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT review and understand the major tenets of SFBT learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it understand treatment applicability read actual session transcripts understand the "miracle scale" get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT better understand SFBT and emotions examine misconceptions about SFBT and more Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

"Join de Shazer behind the on-way mirror for a fascinating journey into the land of brief therapy, where the emphasis is not on how problems arise, but on how to solve them. His case examples read like well-written detective novels, and his concept of 'skeleton key' interventions is both provocative and promising. This is a book that is firmly grounded in the tradition of Milton Erickson, but that extends Erickson's work into new areas. Highly recommended." —Bill O'Hanlon, Editor, Milton H.Erickson Foundation Newsletter"De Shazer's work is testimony to simplicity and parsimony in the therapeutic art of addressing the complex. The author's sense of delight, curiosity, and utter respect for the human condition and people's capacity for creative problem-solving resound in rich case examples, therapist repertoire, and team cooperation. This book presents a teachable model whose outer edges remain open, flexible, and inviting." —Evan Imber Coppersmith, Ph.D., University of Calgary"De Shazer offers, among other things, an expansion of our horizons by an emphasis on solutions as counterweight to previous emphasis on the origins or the nature of problems, an expansion of one's vision of 'cooperation' in therapy as contrasted to 'resistance,' including ideas about how to work with those vague clients who are otherwise the bane of strategic therapists, and some seminal thoughts on 'formula' interventions. These last, together with the recent work of Mara Selvini Palazzoli, may well mark an important new step." —John H. Weakland, Ch.E., Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto

In explicating how language works in therapy, he ranges widely, citing and critiquing Lacan, Bateson, Ackerman, and Weakland, among others. But the heart of this book can be found in the detailed conversations between client and therapist that show solution-focused therapy in action.

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach.

With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to:

sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions

eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions

gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT

review and understand the major tenets of SFBT

learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it

understand treatment applicability

read actual session transcripts

understand the "miracle scale"

get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT

better understand SFBT and emotions

examine misconceptions about SFBT

and more

Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach.

With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to:

sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions

eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions

gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT

review and understand the major tenets of SFBT

learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it

understand treatment applicability

read actual session transcripts

understand the "miracle scale"

get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT

better understand SFBT and emotions

examine misconceptions about SFBT

and more

Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

Después de un instructivo recorrido por las teorías psicoanalíticas, estructuralistas y sistémicas sobre la función de la palabra y del lenguaje, el autor presenta una gran variedad de casos clínicos de su práctica, que muestran la eficacia del diálogo en la terapia familiar breve.Con mucho sentido del humor y simpatía, De Shazer vuelve en este libro a los orígenes de la psicoterapia para constatar que desde Freud todo el desarrollo de las prácticas terapéuticas se basa en algo misterioso que pasa en el diálogo entre terapeuta y cliente. A partir de las historias que han ido narrando los clientes, los terapeutas, a su vez, han narrado sus historias para construir teorías, en estilos muy diversos según sus visiones del mundo. Pero, en definitiva, se trata de una gran "industria de narrar historias".Para desentrañar ese "misterio" de la palabra y del diálogo, el autor ofrece en la primera parte del libro una serie de interesantes incursiones en las teorías psicoanalíticas, lingüísticas, estructuralistas y sistémicas desde Freud, pasando por Saussure, Lacan, Derrida, Gregory Bateson, Foucault y Emerson. En todos estos enfoques muestra cómo se buscaba la explicación del poder curativo del diálogo en distintos niveles, desde las profundidades del inconsciente hasta la "superficie", persiguiendo en unos casos verdades científicas objetivas y admitiendo, en otros, que las buenas soluciones se encuentran más bien por avances azarosos en los que errores y aciertos pueden ser igualmente fecundos.En la segunda parte del libro, el autor se centra plenamente en la terapia familiar y presenta diferentes criterios y estrategias de la conversación característica del enfoque sistémico. después de ejemplificarlo con casos de Nathan Ackerman, James Gustavson y John H. Weakland, De Shazer ofrece una serie de casos muy detallados de su propia práctica y también uno de su colega Insoo Kim Berg. En las transcripciones de las conversaciones se muestra la técnica y la eficacia de lo que el autor llama "trabajar en la superficie", invitando a los clientes, con preguntas bien orientadas, a encontrar e inventar soluciones a sus problemas.