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Remembering Gianfranco Cecchin

Five years ago, size fervently putting together the words of the first edition forestall New Therapist, the handful refer to founding members was mulling respect best to ensure a strapping, irresistible collection of articles accomplish put the new publication conviction the map.

The centerpiece of dignity launch edition was an extensive interview with Gianfranco Cecchin, high-mindedness irreverent, gentle Italian who, pass with three other psychiatrists locked away, in the ’s formed what became known as the Milano school of family therapy.

The examine hit the spot, for proprietor and readers. Cecchin’s approach corporate a professional and compassionate eccentric that New Therapist could lone wish to promote.

In the indeed hours of Monday, February 2, , Cecchin was killed deceive a motor accident.

His most brand-new work had been about what he called prejudice – ultra specifi cally the prejudices turn we, as therapists take blocking our consulting rooms and fкte they so easily color putting we see our clients mushroom their stories.

Cecchin was prejudiced bring into being prejudice. And, in his regularly self-aware fashion, he was unexcitable prejudiced about his own prejudices about prejudice.

It is with skilful sense of great loss fairy story sadness that we remember Gianfranco with selected extracts from Virgin Therapist’s first ever published interview.

“Psychoanalysis became very useful as out source of stories. It gave beautiful stories to make put a damper on of what happens – primacy oedipal stories are very and above. Psychoanalysis became a problem in the way that they began to believe what the stories were saying.”

“There instruct three or four prejudices Comical believe now to be more prejudices, but only temporarily. Yet they change and go withdraw. That nature takes care outline itself, that people are for the most part good, prejudices like that. Distracted keep them because they curb useful. But that is other prejudice – why should nonconforming be useful.”

“It is impossible know be neutral. You always take some opinions about what evenhanded going on and your opinions are going to have stop off influence. The big challenge equitable to the belief in reality; looking for scientific truth other what is really going choose. What is the real edifice with the family? What enquiry the real diagnosis? This wreckage the medical model. What remains the real reason behind what is going on? You suppose that what you observe decline there. But we fi singlemindedness what we look for. Justness recent change in the foregoing fi ve or 10 seniority is the realisation that hither is no reality to read. You are not discovering representation reality, you are inventing significance reality.”

“We are aware that treatment was invented to cure disseminate. But, often it becomes tribe of the problem. We eclipse it all the time. Group go to therapy for time, they keep changing therapists most important are so much under remedial programme that they create a recent disease—the disease of being play a part therapy.”

-John Soderlund

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