Immigrant families and permanent therapists

Journal title RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE
Author/s Alfredo Ancora
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/31
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 43-54 File size 502 KB
DOI 10.3280/PR2010-031004
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The author, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, describes his clinical experience gained in a mental health center on the outskirts of Rome, with families of migrants. Argues that family therapy, on the traces left by Gregory Bateson, should recover its relationship with other levels of reading for to conduce to a different thought / action that the complexity of the migrants families requires. In this regard, he introduces the term "contaminated therapies" to indicate this aspect of reality to which scientific paradigms must be able to adapt.

Keywords: Migrants families,complexity of mind, contaminated therapy

Alfredo Ancora, Famiglie migranti e terapeuti stanziali in "RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE " 31/2010, pp 43-54, DOI: 10.3280/PR2010-031004