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Milan Systemic Family Therapy
or “Long Brief Therapy”
Led by Mara Selvini-Palazzoli.
Sessions held about once a month to let things incubate; families wanting more are trying to control
the therapy. Neutral, nonreactive therapist who asks family to generate its own solutions.

Key Concepts:
Emphasis on information, paradox, circular feedback loops.
Repetitive interactions: games by which members try to control one another. Change the interactions
and the behaviour will too.
Dysfunctional families make an "epistemological error" that can be corrected.

Therapy:
one or two therapists see the family while a team watches from behind a mirror.
Sessions broken by an intersess