ISSUE 5

October 2014

ISSN ISSN 2241-6773

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THIS ISSUE'S ARTICLES

Article 1/ Issue 5
Editorial: About Meaning
The fifth issue of the magazine is devoted to meaning as a necessary condition for our mental existence in life and therapy.
Article 2/ Issue 5
Surviving in psychiatry as a systemic therapist
Paolo Bertrando, Psychiatrist and Family Therapist, school Centro Milanese di Therapia della Famiglia, Milano, Piazza S. Agostino 24, 20123, Milano, ItalyPublished in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 30(3): 160-172, 2009. Republished in Greek with the author’s permission.
Article 3/ Issue 5
Many inner authors: Practical comprehension of the “polyphonic self” in psychotherapy training.
Athena Androutsopoulou, PhD. Psychologist-Psychotherapist, Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Athens, GreeceIn this paper we present an exercise used as part of psychotherapy training to increase practical comprehension of the notion of “polyphonic self”. Trainee therapists learn to identify various voices in autobiographical interviews, diaries and letters based on the methodology that William Stiles applies in analyzing therapy transcripts.
Article 4/ Issue 5
Systems-Centered Training with Couples: Building Marriages that Work
Susan Gantt, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, FAPA is the Director of the Systems-Centered Training and Research Institute. She is a psychologist in private practice in Atlanta and works for Emory University School of Medicine where she coordinates group psychotherapy training. She trains, supervises and consults in the practice of SCT in the USA and Europe, Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFGAPA, FAPA, developed the Theory of Living Human Systems; she founded the Systems-centered Training and Research Institute and works as a therapist, consultant and trainer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she teaches, trains, and supervises Systems-Centered therapists internationallyThis paper is a brief introduction of the systems-centered perspective on couples therapy. It has also introduced the sequence of systems-centered interventions that are designed to build the system which enables the couple to meet their goals.
Article 5/ Issue 5
The therapeutic relationship and the unpredictable in the ecology of the family session
Katia Charalabaki, Psychiatrist, Family Psychotherapist, coordinating director of Family Therapy Unit of Attica Psychiatric Hospital, Kia Thanopoulou, Msc, ECP, Systemic Psychotherapist, Trainer and Supervisor, Family Therapy Unit, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica Therapists who are trained or devoted to serving scientific prediction have been forever anxious to perfect their theoretical and practical ability to achieve safer therapeutic outcomes. Yet there are moments in therapy when certain elements —such as emotional encounters, verbal or sensorial resonances, chance events imposed on the context— unexpectedly invade the process and divert the therapy from its initial prediction.
Article 6/ Issue 5
“Life… full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. Macbeth and Shakespeare: moral versus active nihilism
Evangelia Andritsanoui, Systemic individual, family and group therapist, AthensIn the first part of this article I consider some existential themes in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. I suggest that the play’s first scene constitutes a working assumption, which proves true as the tragedy progresses and as Macbeth falls from the pedestal of the incomparable hero into a moral and existential abyss.
Article 7/ Issue 5
Tennessee Williams’ the glass menagerie
Sotiris Manolopoulos, Psychiatrist-Child Psychiatrist, PsychoanalystThe relationship with an other, who has meaning for as (an object), begins with our double, (the other subject, the other self). We find-create the objective world of objects starting from the subjective world. In the beginning the other is our twin, s/he is created on the model of ourselves.
Article 8/ Issue 5
Book presentation: Katerina Matsa Humiliation and Shame. Drug Addicted Women (in Greek), Athens Agra Editions
Dimitris Kokkalis, Child Psychiatrist - PsychotherapistEven though I haven’t met Dr. Matsa in person, I feel as if we have known each other for long. When I was starting my specialization in Child Psychiatry, Dr. Matsa was already at the front line of sociopolitical struggle for the reformation of Mental Health in Greece. She was a protagonist in the field of Detoxification. She was an activist and a writer.
Article 9/ Issue 5
Book review: Virginia Ioannidou, Η τέχνη της συντροφικής ζωής, μια συστημική προσέγγιση [The Art of Being a Couple. A Systemic Approach] (in Greek), Athens; gnossi Editions
Katia Charalabaki, Psychiatrist, Family Psychotherapist, coordinating director of Family Therapy Unit of Attica Psychiatric HospitalIn his preface to the book of Virginia Ioannidou, Hans Jellouschek notes: “Virginia Ioannidou has written a book for the general public as well as for psychologists, therapists and counsellors who deal with couples and wish to provide some effective help.” A tall order, I would say, and one with a visible risk of the author wavering between simplification and an abstruse language.

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ISSUE 5

October 2014

THIS ISSUE'S ARTICLES

Editorial: About Meaning

Surviving in psychiatry as a systemic therapist

Many inner authors: Practical comprehension of the “polyphonic self” in psychotherapy training.

Systems-Centered Training with Couples: Building Marriages that Work

The therapeutic relationship and the unpredictable in the ecology of the family session

“Life… full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. Macbeth and Shakespeare: moral versus active nihilism

Tennessee Williams’ the glass menagerie

Book presentation: Katerina Matsa Humiliation and Shame. Drug Addicted Women (in Greek), Athens Agra Editions

Book review: Virginia Ioannidou, Η τέχνη της συντροφικής ζωής, μια συστημική προσέγγιση [The Art of Being a Couple. A Systemic Approach] (in Greek), Athens; gnossi Editions

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