In this paper the authors describe a model of working on the “Self” of the systemic therapist, adopted in the training program of the Italian Institutes I.E.F.Co.S. and I.E.F.Co.S.TRE. They emphasize that the therapist’s personal formation doesn’t need particular spaces separated from that of the training because they could become too specially therapeutic space (except in those cases in which a trainee asks for a personal therapy); on the contrary, they think that the work on the person of the therapist should take place inside the training process, through the different phases of its development. The distinguish four levels: a) the work on the family story of the trainee; b) the analysis of the interpersonal dynamics within the training group; c) the work on the trainee through the “live supervision” that allows the analysis of his/her particular emotional to the impact to the “family games” during the therapy; d) the work on the trainee through the “indirect supervision “ that allows to evaluate the trainee’s capacity to govern his/her own internal world, his/her Self in therapy”. We particularly focus on the first of these levels, the work on the trainee’s family story which starts from the genogram and continues with some other analogical and metaphorical construction (sculptures, fairy tales, metaphorical narratives). We underline the usefulness of working with an analogical and metaphorical language which is particularly effective in allowing the discovering and emerging of what cannot be expressed through words: unresolved and less conscious “knots” in the trainers internal world, that cannot be immediately explored by rational thinking. The metaphorical work on a trainee’s family story is presented as an example. More generally the authors emphasize that the whole training process can be interpreted in terms of a trainee’s life cycle, addressed to the acquiring of a progressive autonomy as individuation of his/her own “being a therapist”.
Different levels of personal development of the therapist: the usefulness of an analogical language / Onnis, Luigi; P., Mari; B., Menenti. - In: HUMAN SYSTEMS. - ISSN 0960-9830. - STAMPA. - 19:n. 1-3(2008), pp. 295-304.
Different levels of personal development of the therapist: the usefulness of an analogical language.
ONNIS, Luigi;
2008
Abstract
In this paper the authors describe a model of working on the “Self” of the systemic therapist, adopted in the training program of the Italian Institutes I.E.F.Co.S. and I.E.F.Co.S.TRE. They emphasize that the therapist’s personal formation doesn’t need particular spaces separated from that of the training because they could become too specially therapeutic space (except in those cases in which a trainee asks for a personal therapy); on the contrary, they think that the work on the person of the therapist should take place inside the training process, through the different phases of its development. The distinguish four levels: a) the work on the family story of the trainee; b) the analysis of the interpersonal dynamics within the training group; c) the work on the trainee through the “live supervision” that allows the analysis of his/her particular emotional to the impact to the “family games” during the therapy; d) the work on the trainee through the “indirect supervision “ that allows to evaluate the trainee’s capacity to govern his/her own internal world, his/her Self in therapy”. We particularly focus on the first of these levels, the work on the trainee’s family story which starts from the genogram and continues with some other analogical and metaphorical construction (sculptures, fairy tales, metaphorical narratives). We underline the usefulness of working with an analogical and metaphorical language which is particularly effective in allowing the discovering and emerging of what cannot be expressed through words: unresolved and less conscious “knots” in the trainers internal world, that cannot be immediately explored by rational thinking. The metaphorical work on a trainee’s family story is presented as an example. More generally the authors emphasize that the whole training process can be interpreted in terms of a trainee’s life cycle, addressed to the acquiring of a progressive autonomy as individuation of his/her own “being a therapist”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
