ATTEMPTS AT REDUNDANT SOLUTIONS: OPERATIONAL DIAGNOSTICS AND STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS TO END THE REPEAT OF THE SAME THING
Grégoire VITRY, Claude DE SCORRAILLE, Claudette PORTELLI, Michael F. HOYT
Summary
Beginning with the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California, a meta-model has been described in which redundant solution attempts (TSRs) are seen as sustaining the mental difficulties they attempt to resolve. Giorgio Nardone and his colleagues at the Centro di Terapia Strategica in Arezzo, Italy, developed this constructivist approach through a method of strategic dialogue that turns an initial diagnostic interview into a deliberate and collaborative therapeutic intervention. Using SYPRENE, a systemic practices research network (Vitry et al., 2020), this article presents a reading of persistent psychological problems in terms of avoidance and/or control TSRs in which they fit, then demonstrates with the help of a clinical vignette how this grid can guide therapeutic prescriptions.
Key words
attempt at a redundant solution, strategic therapy, MRI, operative diagnosis, SYPRENE
Abstract:
Beginning with the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California, a meta-model has been described in which redundant attempted solutions (RASs) are seen to maintain the mental difficulties that they attempt to resolve. Giorgio Nardone and his colleagues at the Centro di Terapia Strategica in Arezzo, Italy, have developed this constructivist approach via a strategic dialogue method that renders an initial diagnostic interview a deliberate and collaborative therapeutic intervention. Using SYPRENE, a systemic practice research network (Vitry et al., 2020), this article presents a reading of persistent psychological problems in terms of the RASs of avoidance and/or control in which they are embedded, and then demonstrates with a clinical vignette how this grid can guide therapeutic prescriptions.
Keywords
redundant attempted solution, strategic therapy, MRI, operative diagnosis, SYPRENE