This dialogue explores how humor can loosen rigid meanings and open space for change in brief therapy. Through stories, jokes, and clinical reflection, it shows how timing, tact, and playfulness can shift perspective, strengthen alliance, and invite movement when clients feel stuck, overwhelmed, or overly serious about their problems.
Cloe Madanes presents strategic family therapy, focusing on shifting from individual to family-based approaches. She outlines techniques like reversing family hierarchies and prescribing symptom roles to create change, emphasizing the use of humor and playfulness. Discussant Dr. Watzlawick critiques the approach for potentially fostering dependence and lacking diagnostic clarity, while also examining the complexities of paradox and subjective reality in therapeutic work.
Moderated by William McLeod, MD.
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