Interview with Anna Maria Sorrentino – The Seven Doors of Systemic Therapy

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Interview with Anna Maria Sorrentino, coauthor together with Stefano Cirillo and Matteo Selvini of Entrare in terapia: Le sette porte della terapia sistemica [Going into therapy: The Seven Doors of Systemic Therapy], Published by Raffaello Cortina.

Interviewers: Annina Renk, Claudia Tapparelli, Sabrina Scardua and Piera Serra

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Albert Pesso interviewed by Piera Serra

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The first question is, what are the most important aspects of PBSP method?

There’re so many of them. Of course the body, and how to access the information in the body in a way that the client is understanding and aware of it. The reason we look at the information in the body is because we’re concerned whether people have had, in their history, sufficient satisfaction of maturational needs. We believe that we are seeing the world through the lens of memory, of history, and if we haven’t had our basic needs met, we’re going to repeat that dysfunction in the present and in the future. So we track how they are perceiving the present, look for the historical base for that, find the history that hadn’t been satisfying and then make a new memory; but we are making a new memory by being in access with their emotional self and not their cognitive self. I’m making a new memory, getting in touch with their emotional self by what’s in their body and then having them imprint a new memory, as if it had happened in the past, so it isn’t just happening in the present. That’s a very fast condensation of the basic aspects of the work.

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An interview with Wendy Behary

E-Journal of Psychotherapy Research talks with Wendy Behary about thapeutic process:

Part 1: When the narcissist manipulates the partner, are they doing so intentionally?

Part 2: Tips on self-disclosure

Part 1: When the narcissist manipulates the partner, are they doing so intentionally?

Wendy, have you ever heard your narcissistic client admitting that they have intentionally manipulated their partner? For example, being detached to try to trigger a partner to start complaining or asking: “Would you like to go to the theatre or to the cinema?” and then: “You shouldn’t like that movie” etcetera… Have you ever heard the client admitting: “Yes, I do that intentionally…”?

They don’t actually even know they’re doing it, that’s the thing! So, I don’t think of it as intentional. I feel it’s just that they have an idea of what’s best, and if someone doesn’t pick the answer that they have chosen, or deemed correct, they feel insulted and they criticise their partners as a camouflage for their shame. They don’t even know they really did it… if I say: “Look, you offer two choices: that was very nice, very gallant, you ask: What would you like to do? Would you like to do this? Would you like to do that? Your partner says: “I’d like to do that” and then you say: “What? That’s stupid!”

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Matteo Selvini, Editor, interviewed by Germana Cavallini

GC: Welcome, everyone. We are at the Mara Selvini Palazzoli Psychotherapy Training School to tackle the topic of research studies in the field of psychotherapy talking with Dr. Matteo Selvini. to start off  we will ask Dr. Selvini: "What might facilitate the creation of a new approach in psychotherapy? And how does this come about?

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