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Carlos E. Sluzki, M.D.

5302 Sherier Pl NW
Washington DC 20016

Mobile: (202) 255-0458
Email: csluzki@gmu.edu
Web: sluzki.com

CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Professor Emeritus of Global and Community Health and of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • 2002-2014: Professor, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Department of Global and Community Health, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University
  • 2007-2008: Senior Researcher, Advanced School of Psychology, Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy
  • 2001 Jan/Mar: Visiting Scholar, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University Law School
  • 1995-2001: Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine
  • 1984-1994: Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester) at Berkshire Medical Center
  • 1980-1984: Professor of Psychiatry and of Family and Community Medicine; 1978-1980: Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Ambulatory and Community Medicine and 1973-1978: Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Ambulatory and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
  • 1972-1973: Research Psychiatrist, Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco
  • 1965-1971: Faculty, Residency Program in Psychiatry; Department of Postgraduate Training, University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine; and Faculty, Ministry of Public Health's Psychiatric Residency Program, "G. Araoz Alfaro” (currently renamed “Evita”) General Hospital, Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina

PREVIOUS INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS

  • 2010-2011: Acting Chair, Department of Global and Community Health, Department of Global; and Community Health, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University
  • 2003-2004: Acting Dean for Health Sciences and Research, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, George Mason University
  • 1994-2001: Director, Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Services, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA
  • 1984-1993: Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
  • 1980-1983: Director, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California
  • 1976-1980: Director of Training, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California
  • 1979-1994: Director, 2- or 3-week yearly Intensive Course in Systemic Therapy (in Spanish, for 60-per-year Latin-American and Spanish therapists). Palo Alto, CA (at Stanford University, first three years), Williamstown, MA (at Williams College, subsequent 8 years), and Santa Barbara, CA (at UC Santa Barbara, subsequent 4 years); 1973-1982: Director of Behavioral Science, Family Practice Residency Program, University of California San Francisco Medical School at San Francisco General Hospital.
  • 1967-1970: Director, Center for Research in Psychiatry, and Associate Chair, Department of Psychiatry, “Araoz Alfaro” Hospital, Lanus, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 1964-1967: Director, In-Patient Psychiatry; 1960-63: Junior Staff/Resident, same Department.

PROFESSIONAL DEGREES

  • Medical Doctor (1960), University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine
  • Licensed Physician and Surgeon, California (License A-34885), Massachusetts (License 59837), Washington D.C. (License 35156)
  • Specialist in Psychiatry (1965) Ministry of Social Affairs and Public Health, Argentina
  • Psychoanalyst (1965-1969), Argentine Psychoanalytic Association Institute of Psychoanalysis (International Psychoanalytic Association)
  • Family Therapist (1965-68) (Intensive Training Programs, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA

PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS: ROLE AS EDITOR AND ADVISORY EDITOR

  • Editor-in-Chief
    • 1999-2004: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
    • 1992-1993: The Bulletin: Journal of Berkshire Medical Center
    • 1983-1990: Family Process
    • 1968-1971: Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicologica de America Latina
  • Advisory Editor/Reviewer
    • Connestioni
    • Familiendynamik (Germany)
    • Family Systems and Health; American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
    • Interactional Mind
    • International Journal of Brief Therapy and Family Sciences (Japan)
    • Journal of Family Psychotherapy
    • Mediazione Familiare Sistemica
    • Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice (US)
    • Nova Perspectiva Sistemica (Brazil)
    • Psicobiettivo (Italy)
    • Psicoterapia y Familia (Mexico)
    • Redes
    • Sistemas Familiares (Argentina)
    • Social Science & Medicine (UK)
    • Systemica (Spain)
    • Terapia Familiare
    • World Medical & Health

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
  • Fellow, American College of Psychiatrists
  • Fellow, Washington Psychiatric Society
  • Emeritus/Charter Member, American Family Therapy Academy
  • Fellow, American Orthopsychiatric Association
  • Member, International Society for Health and Human Rights
  • Member, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Distinguished Career in Science Award, Washington Academy of Sciences (2018)
  • Doctor Honoris Causa degree, Maimonides University, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, International Family Therapy Association (2010)
  • Member, Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars (Epsilon Delta Chapter) (2005)
  • Professor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires School of Psychology (2000)
  • Award for Meritorious Achievements in the Field of Family Therapy, American Family Therapy Academy (2000)
  • Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (1994)
  • Merit Diploma, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico (1989)
  • Master Therapist, American Association of Marital and Family Therapists (1984)
  • Award for Distinguished Achievements in New Directions in Family Therapy — MRI Group. American Family Therapy Academy (1981)
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate, University of California San Francisco (1980)
  • Fellow, John S. Guggenheim Foundation (1972-3)
  • Advanced Research Fellow, Foundations’ Fund for Research in Psychiatry (1971-2)
  • Research Associate, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California (1965-1983)
  • Fellow, Pan-American Union (1965)
  • Honorary Member of the European Family Therapy Association, Italian Society for Family Therapy, Italian Society for Systemic Psychotherapy and Research, French Society for Family Therapy, Argentine Association for Family Therapy, Argentine Association for Behavioral Therapy, Turkish Association of Family Therapy, Mexican Association for Family Therapy, South African Association for Family Therapy, Association of Family Therapists of Northern California; Nicaraguan Psychiatric Society; Association for Family Therapy of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Latin American Institute for Family Studies, Mexico, DF., Portuguese Society for Family Therapy. Hellenic Family Therapy Association (Greece), Japanese Foundation for Brief Therapy, International Association of Systemic Mediation
  • President, keynote speaker, member of organizing and scientific committees in many professional congresses in the fields of Psychiatry, Mental Health, Human Rights, and Family Therapy in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

ACTIVITIES WITH THE PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)

  • 2003: Temporary Advisor, Task Force on Research in Third World Countries: The Role of Editors of Psychiatric Journals. WHO Headquarters, Geneva, CH.
  • 1982: Temporary Advisor and Consultant (Program Leader), NUTES/CLATES, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 1973: Temporary Advisor and Member and Rapporteur of the Experts Committee on Teaching of Mental Health to Medical Students, Washington, DC
  • 1970: Temporary Advisor and Member of the Fifth Seminar on Psychiatric Diagnosis, Classification and Statistics, Washington, DC
  • 1967-1969: Lecturer, Workshop on Medical Pedagogy for Medical Faculty, Argentine Association of Schools of Medicine and Pan American Health Organization (World Health Organization), Buenos Aires
  • 1965: Temporary Advisor and Member of the Study Group on the Epidemiology of Mental Diseases, Washington, DC

ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS/REFUGEES

  • 2009-2010: Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science “Science and Human Rights Coalition”, Service for the Scientific Community” Working Group
  • 2009: Faculty member, ASCP project on Trauma, University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberi
  • 2005-2010: Consultant, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2004 on: Member of the International Advisory Board, Fundación Cambio Democrático
  • 2003: Mental Health Experts Meeting, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2001-2007: Consultant to the UNHCR re Refugees/IDPs, Rwanda and Uganda
  • 2001-2003: Member of the AFTA-University of Chicago/ University of Prjstina Kosovar Family Professional Education Collaborative (Service-Based Training Program for Kosovar Community Mental Health and Prevention)
  • 1999-2001: Member of the Harvard University Program on Negotiation /United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees consulting team “Imagining Coexistence.” Fieldwork in Rwanda, consultations in Geneva UNHCR Headquarters.
  • 1998-2001: Chair, Task Force on Human Rights, American Orthopsychiatric Association
  • 1992-1994: Chair, Committee on Human Rights, American Family Therapy Academy
  • 1991-1995: Chair 1993-1995; and Member 1991-1993, Committee on Human Rights, Council on International Affairs, American Psychiatric Association

OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • American Psychiatric Association, Chair, Committee on Human Rights (Council on International Affairs)(1993-1995); Member, same Committee (1991-1993); Chair, Academy of Family Psychiatrists (1996); Member, Committee on Abuses and Misuses of Psychiatry (1980-1982)
  • American Family Therapy Academy, Chair, Human Rights Committee (1992-1994); Chair, History Committee (1988-91); Member of the Board of Directors (1979-1988); Vice President (1983-1985}
  • Association of Family Therapists of Northern California, President (1980-1982)
  • Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Member, Research Committee (1976-1977)
  • International Sociological Association, Vice-president, Research Committee in Psychiatric Sociology (1970-1973)
  • Ateneo Psiquiatrico de Buenos Aires, Secretary General (1965-1968)

PUBLICATIONS

(a) Articles in refereed journals and book chapters

  • Les histoires bien formées: Vers l’orientation et evaluation des transformations narratives en thérapie. (2022), Cahiers critiques de therapie familale et de pratiques de reseaux. 2(69):73-82 (Language: Fr)
  • Another loop of the spiral: A re-examination of 18 manualized prescriptions from 1979 (2022), Chapter 2 in Mariotti M, Saba G & Stratton,P, Eds.: Handbook of Systemic Approaches to Therapy Manuals: Integrating Research, Practice and Training. Cham, Switzerland, Springer (European Family Therapy Association Series) (Language: En)
  • How, of all the millions of people…: Reexamination of a question from an early MRI research project (2019), Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 45(2), 323-336. DOI: 10.1111/jmft.12320 (Language: Eng)
  • El grupo terapéutico como ‘banda de hermanos’: Una visión desde la óptica de la red social personal. (2019), Chapter in Diaz Sanfeliu, L, Ed.: Lo Grupal en el Siglo XXI. Madrid, SEGPA (Language: Sp)
  • Verón En 'El Año 2000-> (2018), elipSis (Ms. accepted, issue in preparation). (Language: Fr)
  • Hegemony, Migration and Developmental Cycle: A Family Consultation (2018), Chapter In Cereijido, M., Ed.: Challenging Psychoanalysts’ Prejudices about Changing Notions of Femininity. London, Karnak (Language: Eng)
  • De la prehistoria a los albores de la terapia familiar (2017), Sistemas Familiares, 33(1):56-60. ISSN 1668-7124 (Language: Sp)
  • The impact of authoritarian regimes on families… and on the therapist (2017), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. DOI: 10.1002/anzf.1237. A subsequent version was published by the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 104(3):11-18 (Language: Eng)
  • In search of a new identity: An institutional consultation at a sub-acute inpatient unit in a general hospital (2017), Family, Systems and Health, 35(1), Mar 2017,70-76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000245 (Language: Eng)
  • Proxemics in couple interactions: Rekindling an old optic (2015), Family Process, 55(1):7-15 (11/2015; DOI:10.1111/famp.12196). For an earlier version in Spanish, see “Acerca de la curiosidad; Evolution de moralejas en la historia de Barbazul" (2013) below. (Language: Eng)
  • Storks with bad omens: Disagreements about pregnancy and their impact on couples and on children (2015), (in Spanish) Redes, 31: 9-24 (Language: Sp)
  • The transdisciplinary future of systemic therapy (2014), (in Spanish) Mosaico, 57: 63-78 (Language: Sp)
  • Modeling negotiation using ‘Narrative grammar’: Exploring the evolution of meaning in a simulated negotiation (2014), Group Decision and Negotiation, 23(5): 1047-1065 (Language: Eng)
  • Harlow, Bowlby and children in the context of extreme violence (2013), Chapter 2 in Proceedings of the 3d, International Congress on Brief and Family Therapy. CEFAP, Puebla, Mexico (Language: Sp)
  • Who pursues whom? Kinetic digressions on couples interaction (2013), (in Spanish) Psicoterapia y Familia, 26(1):5-12 (Language: Sp)
  • Acerca de la curiosidad: Evolucion de moralejas en la historia de Barbazul (2013), (in Spanish) Redes 28:11-26. Also as a chapter in J. L. Linares y P. Semboloni, Eds: La Familia en la Ópera: Metáforas líricas para problemas relacionales. Barcelona, Gedisa, pp. 134-152, (Language: Sp)
  • The group therapist as social network enhancer: A new area of inquiry (2012), Forum (journal of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Process), 5:55-68 (Language: Eng)
  • Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t: Dilemmas of Internally Displaced Populations (2011), Global Studies Review, 7(1) Spring (Language: Eng)
  • Redes Sociales y salud: Circulos viciosos y circulos virtuosos (2010), (in Spanish) In Proceedings of the XVIII World IFTA Congress (March 17-20, 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Bologna, Italy, Medimond. pp.19-25. (Language: Sp)
  • A manera de epilogo (2010), (in Spanish) Chapter in Chimpen C A and Sagrado S, Eds : Mediacion: La Busqueda del Camino Alternativo. Argentina (Language: Sp)
  • Personal social networks and health: Conceptual and clinical implications of their reciprocal impact (2010), Family Systems and Health, 28(1): 1-18 (Language: Eng)
  • On Sorrow: Medical Advice from Isahq ben Sulayman al-Israel 1,000 Years ago (2010), Am J Psychiat 167(4):387 (Language: Eng)
  • Between projects and regrets: Social network maps of three young female immigrants (2010), Chapter in Cigoli, V & Gennari M, Eds.: Close relationships and community psychology: An International perspective. Milan, Franco Angeli (Language: Eng)
  • The pathway between conflict and reconciliation: Coexistence as an evolutionary process (2010), Transcultural Psychiatry, 47(1): 55-69 (Language: Eng)
  • Introduction (2010), Chapter in Richeport-Haley, M & Carlson J, Eds.: Jay Haley Revisited . London, Routledge. (Language: Eng)
  • Difficult babies, difficult parents: Toward a model based on a reciprocal fit (2009), (in French) in Cahiers critiques de therapie familale et de pratiques de reseaux, 43:151-167, 2009 and (in Spanish) in Redes, 22:11-27 ( an earlier version, In Italian, may be found in Majeutica, 25/26: 9-18, 2006) (Languages: Fr, Sp, Ital)
  • From the schizophrenogenic mother to the genotypic vulnerability: Update on the theme ‘Family and schizophrenia’ (2008), (in Spanish) Revista Lationamericana de Psiquiatria, 9:24-34 and, in Italian, in Psicobietttivo, 29(2):137-154, 2009 (Languages: Sp, Ital)
  • Migration: A social networks perspective (2008), (in Italian) Chapter for Scabini, E. & Rossi, G (2008): La migrazione come evento familiare. (Migration as a family event). Milan, Vita e Pensiero Press (Language: Ital)
  • Saudades at the edge of the self and the merits of portable families (2008), Transcultural Psychiatry, 45:379-390 (Language: Eng)
  • The Ancient Cult of Madame: When therapists trade curiosity for certainty (2008), Journal of Family Therapy (UK), 30:119-130. A previous version appeared in Portuguese in Pensando Familias (Brazil), 11(1): 29-40, 2007 (Languages: Eng, Port)
  • Migration and the disruption of the social network (2008), Chapter in McGoldrick M & Hardy, K, Ed.: Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice. 2nd. Edition. New York, Guilford Press. (It is a revision of a chapter originally published in the first edition of the same book, cf. 89a) (Language: Eng)
  • Lyman C. Wynne and the transformation of the field of family-and-schizophrenia (2007), Family Process, 46(2):143-49. An expanded version has been published in Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas on Line, July 2007, and in Portuguese in Familia em Foco: Teoria e Clinica, 1(1):7-18, 2008 (Languages: En, Sp, Port)
  • Therapeutic blueprints for patients trapped in shame or humiliation generating stories (2007), (in Spanish). Perspectivas Sistemicas, 19(94-95):3-5, March (Language: Sp)
  • The interface between family and genomics (2007), Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 18(1):1-9. A previous version was published in Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas, 17(87):3-6, 2005 (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • Toward an evolving theory of practice (2007), Family Process, 46(2):173-84. (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • Victimization, recovery, and the ‘better formed’ stories (2006), (in Spanish) Sistemas Familiares, 22(1-2):5-20 (Language: Sp)
  • Short term heaven, long term limbo: A visit to a refugee camp in Rwanda (2006), Global Studies Review, 2(1):4-5. An expanded version, in Spanish, was published in PoSIbles: Politica, Salud Internacional y Desarrollo Sostenible, 2:11-15, 2009 (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • Deception and fear in politically oppressive contexts: The trickle-down effect on families (2005), Review of Policy Research, 22(5): 625-35. (Language: )
  • A family approach to severe mental illness in post-war Kosova (2005), Psychiatry 68(1):17-27. (Language: )
  • A house taken over by ghosts: Culture, migration and developmental cycle in a Moroccan family invaded by hallucinations (2004), Families, Systems and Health, 22(3):321-37. A prior version appeared in Spanish as a chapter in La Practica de la Terapia Familiar: Un Encuentro Clinico (The Practice of Family Therapy: A Clinical Encounter). Buenos Aires, Libros del Zorzal, 2003 (Language: )
  • Hin und Zurück: Back from when we come from (2004), Chapter in F.Walsh and M.McGoldrick, Eds.: Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd. Edition. New York, Norton. (Language: Eng)
  • Small steps and big leaps: A crisis in a traditional Kosovar family in an era of cultural transition (2003), Family Process, 42(4):479-84. Translated into Spanish in the issue “Psicoanalisis y Cultura” of Psicoanalisis APdeBA (Argentina), 27(3):423-432, 2005, and in Redes (Spain)(14):33-42, 2005 (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • The process toward reconciliation (2003), Chapter in A. Chayes and M. Minow, Eds.: Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity after Violent Ethnic Conflict. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. Translated into Italian in Mediazione Familiare Sistemica, 1: 5-11, 2003, and into Spanish in Mediadores en Red 3(9):32-45, 2005 (Languages: Eng, Ital, Sp)
  • Memory, remembrances and transformations of Lanus: Homage to the mentor (2003), Psicoanalisis, 24(2-3): 471-178 (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Families Imploding: The Loosening of the social fabric and the decline of social responsibility at the dawn of the 21st. Century (2003), J. Family Psychotherapy, 14 (1). (Language: Eng)
  • Humiliation, social crisis, and social networks: A Conversation (2002), Sistemas Familiares, 18(3):5-17 (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Psychosocial scenarios following a bioterrorist attack (2002), Chapter in T. Woodcock, Ed: Perceive Threat and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism (provisional title, book in preparation). (Language: Eng)
  • All those in favor of saving the planet, please raise your hand: A comment about ‘Family therapy saves the planet’ (2001), J. Mariage and Family Therapy, 27(1): 13-15. (Language: Eng)
  • Narratives of violence, narratives of recovery (2000), (In Norwegian) Fokus pa Familien 2000-1: 3-18. (Language: Norw)
  • Patients, clients, consumers: The politics of words (2000), Family, Systems and Health 18(3):347-352. (Language: Eng)
  • Social Networks and the Elderly: Conceptual and Clinical Issues, and a Family Consultation (2000), Family Process, 39(3):271-284. A version in Spanish appeared in Sistemas Familiares, 15(3):29-39, 1999 (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • On violence: A creed for therapists (2000), J. Family Psychotherapy 11(2): 1-8. An uptaded version was published (in Spanish) in Sistemas Familiares, 20(1-2): 17-23, 2004 (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • Creative Conversations: Meetings with Family Therapists and their Ideas (2000), Chapter (in Swedish) in G. Berglund and E. Abrahamsson, Eds. Smedjebacken, Sweden, Mareld Books, 2000 (Language: Swed)
  • The evolving context of the family therapy field: An overview (1999), American Family Therapy Academy Newsletter 77:9-10, 1999 (Language: Eng)
  • The crisis of masculinity: An evolutionary perspective (1999), In Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas, 12(57):3-8, 1999, and in Terapia y Familia, 17(1):3-17, 2004. (Language: Sp)
  • Qualitative and quantitative research: A constructionist perspective (1999), (in French) Therapie Familiale, 19(3):255-263, 1999; and (in Spanish) Redes, 5:73-84, 1999 (Languages: Fr, Sp)
  • Language, practices and record-keeping: A reflective consultation and some changes that resulted from it (1999), Human Systems, 7(2-3):103-116, 1996. Also as a chapter in Alan Cooklin, Ed.: Changing Organizations: Clinicians as Agents of Change. London, Karnak Books, 1999 (Language: Eng)
  • In search of the lost family: A footnote to Munichin’s article (1998), Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, 24(4): 415-17, 1998; translated into Italian in Terapia Familiare, 60:21-26, 1999; and into Spanish in Sistemas Familiares, 2000 (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • Strange attractors and the transformation of narratives in therapy (1998), Chapter in Hoyt, M.F., Ed.: The Handbook of Constructive Therapies. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1998. A previous version in Spanish appeared in Sistemas Familiares, 13(2): 43-54, 1997; and also as a chapter in Garcia Rodriguez, J.; Garrido Fernandez, M; and Rodriguez Franco, L, Eds:.Personalidad, Procesos Cognitivos y Psicoterapia: Un Enfoque Constructivista. Madrid, Fundamentos, 1998 (Languages: Eng, Sp, )
  • A family interview (1998), Chapter in Pereira, R., Ed.:“Actas de las 3as jornadas Ikas-Dictia de terapia Familiar” Barcelona/Bilbao, St Pau-EVT. (pp.47-81) 1998 (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Migration and the disruption of the social network (1998), Chapter in McGoldrick, M. ed.: Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice. New York, Guilford Press, 1998 (Language: Eng)
  • Rekindling the experience of freedom: From the personal to the collective... and back (1997), Human Systems, 8(3-4):225-238, 1997 (Language: Eng)
  • Getting married and un-married: Vicissitudes of the social network during marriage and divorce (1995), Generations, 5:44-51, 1995 (in French) (Language: Fr)
  • The impact of the social network on the health of the individual and of health of the individual on the social network (1995), Chapter in E. Dabas and D.Najmanovich, Eds.: Redes Sociales: El Lenguaje de los Vinculos. Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1995 (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • A narrative-based, practice-oriented approach to schizophrenia (1995), Chapter (in Italian) in P.Bertrando, C.l.Cazzullo and M.Clerici, Eds.: Terapie Familiari e Psicoeducazionale: Attuali Orientamenti nel Lavoro con le Famiglie di Pazienti Schizofrenici. Milano, FrancoAngeli, 1995 (Language: Ital)
  • The ‘eigen-values’ of stories (1995), Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 3(3/4): ; Translated into Italian in Connessioni, 11:1-7, 1995; and into Spanish in Psicologia Iberoamericana, 5(3):31-35, 1977, and in Sistemas Humanos (Mexico), 2(1):1-4, 2011 (Languages: Eng,, Sp)
  • Reclaiming words, reclaiming worlds (1994), Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, 9(2):4-7, 1994. Translated into Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas, 7(33):16, and 7(34): 5-6, 1994; and into German in Familiendynamik, 21(3):311-6, 1996 (Languages: En,, Sp,, Ge)
  • Social network and systemic/family approaches (1994), In Spanish in Familia (Spain) 9:7-20, 1994 (Language: Sp)
  • The generative context of ‘Pragmatics of Human Communication’: A personal reminiscence (1993), In Spanish, in Cuadernos de Terapia Familiar, (Spain) 23/24:20-2. Translated into Italian as an Introduction to M.Mariotti, F.Bassoli and R.Frison: Manuale di Psicioterapia Sistemica e Relazionale. Padova, Sapere, 2004:19-28. (Languages: Sp, Ital)
  • Toward a general model of family and political victimization (1993), Psychiatry, 56: 178-187. Also as a chapter in D. F. Schnitman (ed.): New Paradigms, Culture and Subjectivity, book published in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, respectively, by Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1995; Porto Alegre, Artes Medicas, 1996; and Hampton Press, 2001 ; (in German) as a chapter in J. Schweitzer, A. Retzer and H.R. Fischer (eds.): Systemische Praxis und Postmoderne. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1993; and (in French) in Cahiers Critiques de Therapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Reseaux, 24: 15-30, 2000. (Languages: Eng, Sp, Port, Fr, Ger)
  • The social network: Frontier of systemic therapy (1993), (In French) Therapie Familiale, 14(3):239-251. (Language: Fr)
  • Transformations: A blueprint for narrative changes in therapy (1992), Family Process, 31(3): 217-230, 1992. Translated into Italian in Terapia Familiare, 36: 5-19, 1991; into German in Familiendynamik; 17(1): 19-38, 1992; into Spanish in Sistemas Familiares 14(2): 11-24, 1998; and into French as a chapter in M.Elkaim & E.Trappeniers, Eds.: Etapes d’une Evolution: Approche Systemique et Therapie Familiale. Paris, Privat, 1993, book translated into Spanish: La Terapia Familiar en Transformacion. Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1998. (Languages: Eng, Sp, Ger, Fr, Ital)
  • The 'better-formed' story (1992), Chapter (in Italian) in G. Cecchin and M. Mariotti, (eds.): L'Adolescente e i suoi Sistemi. Rome: Kappa. (pp.37-47) (Language: Ital)
  • Disruption and reconstruction of networks following migration / relocation (1992), Family Systems Medicine, 10(4): 359-364. A previous version appeared (in Spanish) in Sistemas Familiares 6(2): 67-72, 1990; and in French in Cahiers Critiques de Therapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Reseaux:, 12: 103-109, 1990. It was also reproduced as a chapter in F.E. Atkinson, (ed.): Treatment of Torture: Readings and References. Ottawa: FEA Press, 1991. (Languages: Eng, Sp, Fr)
  • The emergence of narratives as focus of therapy (1991), (in French). Therapie Familiale; 12(4): 293-300; and (in German), as a chapter in T. Keller and Nils Greve (Eds.): Systemische Praxis in der Psychiatrie. Bonn: Psychiatrie-Verlag, 1996. (Languages: Fr, Ger)
  • Family’s ideology and therapists’ ideology: A debate (1991), Chapter (in French) in Y. Rey and B. Prieur, (eds.): Systemes, Etique, Perspectives en Therapie Familiale. Paris: ESF. (Language: Fr)
  • Disappeared: Semantic and Somatic Effects of Political Repression in a Family Seeking Therapy (1990), Family Process, 29(2): 131-143, 1990. Translated into Italian in Terapia Familiare, 33: 55-71, 1990; and Spanish in Sistemas Familiares, 11(1):65-77,1995. (Languages: Eng, Sp, Ital)
  • Family secrets and personal differentiation: A clinical case (1990), The Bulletin (Berkshire Medical Center), 3(2): 11-14. (Language: Eng)
  • Negative explanation, drawing distinctions, raising dilemmas, collapsing time, externalization of problems: A note on some powerful conceptual tools (1990), Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 7(3): 33-37. (Language: Eng)
  • Carl Auer as Smuggler (1990), Chapter in Weber, G. & Simon, F.B., (eds.): Carl Auer: Geist or Ghost? Heidelberg: Auer Verlag, Bilingual English/German Edition. Re-edited in the US as Strange Encounters with Carl Auer, New York: WW Norton, 1991. (Languages: Eng, Ger)
  • Systemic Blueprint in a Therapeutic Conversation (1990), Chapter in R. Chasin, H. Grunebaum & M. Herzig: One Couple, Four Realities: Multiple Perspectives in Couple Therapy. New York: Guilford. (Language: Eng)
  • Self reference and family therapy: An introduction (1990), Chapter (in French) in 10b (Language: Fr)
  • On Training and Practice in Family Therapy (1990), (In Spanish in) Perspectivas Sistemicas, 3(10) (Language: Sp)
  • Jealousy: A parable revisited (1989), The Family Therapy Networker 13(3):53-78. An expanded version appeared (in Spanish) in Terapia Familiar 13(20), 1990; and in Perspectivas Sistemicas, 7(32): 3-5, 1994; and (in Italian) as a chapter in C. Loriedo and A. Bianchi di Castelbianco (eds.): II Bambino e i suoi Sistemi. Roma: Edizione Kappa, 1990. (Languages: Eng, Sp, Ital)
  • Recent research on schizophrenia and the family: An update (1988), (in Italian) Atraverso lo Specchio, 6(2): 9-32. (Language: It)
  • From generation to generation: a commentary (1988), (In French) Cahiers Critiques de Therapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Reseaux, 8:35-38. (Language: Fr)
  • Patient-agency system and the maintenance of chronic problems: Analysis of a consultation with an agency's staff (1988), Family Systems Medicine, 6(4): 10-16. Translated into French as a chapter in J. Pluymaekers, (ed.): Familles, Institutions et Approche Systemique. Paris: Les Editions ESF, 1989. (Languages: Eng, Fr)
  • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and the Family System (1987), Psychosomatics, 28(4): 206-8. (Language: eng)
  • On the ephemeral nature of paradox in therapy (1986), (In French) Systemes Humains, 2(2): 109-114. (In Italian) Atraverso lo Specchio, 5(17): 23-27, 1987; and (in Spanish) in Mosaico, 26:26-28, 2003. (Languages: Fr, Sp, It)
  • A minimal map of cybernetics (1985), The Family Therapy Networker 9(1): 26. An expanded version appeared (in Italian) Bolletino (Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia), 11, 1986, and (in Spanish) in Sistemas Familiares, 3(2): 65-70, 1987. (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • Family Consultation in Family Medicine: A Case Example (1985), Family Systems Medicine 3(2). Included as a chapter in Wynne, L.C., Weber, T.T. & MacDaniel, S.H. (eds.) The Family Therapist as Systems Consultant, Guilford Press: New York, 1986.; (and, in Spanish) in Actualidad Psicologica, XII(131): 5-10, 1987; (in Italian and French) in L. Onnis, (ed.): Famiglia e Malaltia Psicosomatica, Rome: Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1988, published in French as Les Langages du Corps: La Revolution Systemique en Psychosomatique. Paris, ESF, 1996. (Languages: Eng, Sp, It, Fr)
  • Creativity and Training (1985), Chapter (in French) in M. Elkaim, (ed.): Formations et Pratiques en Therapie Familiale. Paris: Les Editions ESF. (Book translated into Spanish, Buenos Aires: Nueva Vision, 1988.) (Languages: Fr, Sp)
  • Simulated session, consultation and discussion (1985), Chapter (in French) in M. Elkaim, (ed.): Formations et Pratiques en Therapie Familiale. Paris: Les Editions ESF. (Book translated into Spanish, Buenos Aires: Nueva Vision, 1988.) (Languages: Fr, Sp)
  • Families, Networks and Other Strange Shapes (1985), AFTA Newsletter, 19; and (in Spanish) Sistemas Familiares, 2(1):61-4, 1985. (Languages: En,, Sp)
  • Family therapy as construction of alternative realities (1985), Sistemas Familiares. 1(1):58. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • The Patient-Provider-Translator Triad: A Note For Providers (1984), Family Systems Medicine, 2(4):397-. (Language: Eng)
  • Process, Structure and World Views: Toward an Integrated View of Systemic Models in Family Therapy (1983), Family Process, 22:469-476, 1983. Reproduced as a chapter in Family Studies Review Yearbook, Vol. III, Sage Press, 1985; (in Italian) as a chapter in C. Cipolli & A. Silvestri, (eds.): Communicazione e Sistemi: Un Approccio Interdisciplinare all'Interazione Umana. Milano: Franco Angeli, 1985; and S as a chapter in E. Gutierrez, (ed.): Lecturas de Terapia Familiar, U. de Santiago de Campostela Press, 1984. (Languages: Eng, Sp, Ital)
  • Psychology and cancer: expanding the boundaries of our ignorance (1983), Psychologie Medicale, 15(a): 134-7, 1983. (Language: Fr)
  • How to stake a territory in the field of Family Therapy in three easy lessons (1983), Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, 9(3), 1983; (in French) Cahiers Critiques de Therapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Reseaux, 7:131-134), 1983, and as a chapter in Elkaim, M. (ed.): Psychotherapie et reconstruccion du reel. Paris: Editions Universitaires, 1983; and (in Spanish) as a chapter in E. Gutierrez, (ed.): Lecturas de Terapia Familiar, Santiago de Campostela: U de Santiago de Campostela Press, 1984. (Languages: Eng, Sp, Fr)
  • The sounds of silence: two case of elective mutism in bilingual families (1983), Chapter in Falicov, CJ, (ed.): Cultural Perspectives in Family Therapy. Rockville, MD: Aspen, 1983. (Language: Eng)
  • Bumping against walls: Resistance as a misnomer (1983), Audio-cassette in Aponte, H., Sluzki CE, Anderson, C., Papp, P., Wachtel, P. & Wachtel, E.: From Resistance to Alliance in Family Therapy: New Perspectives and Techniques. New York: BMA Audio Cassette Publications, 1983. (Language: Eng)
  • A Brief Rejoinder to a Brief Rejoinder (1982), Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, 8(4), 399-402, 1982; also S as part of Terapia Familiar 6(12), 139:156, and as a chapter in E. Gutierrez, (ed.) Lecturas de Terapia Familiar, Santiago de Campostela: U. de Santiago de Campostela Press, 1984 (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • Process of Symptom Production and Patterns of Symptom Maintenance (1981), Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 7(3), 1981; (in Italian), Terapia Familiare, 10, 1981; (in Spanish) Terapia Familiar, 6(12), 139-156, 1983 S, and as a chapter in E. Gutierrez, (ed.): Lecturas en Terapia Familiar, Santiago de Campostela: U. de Santiago de Campostela Press, 1984. (Languages: Eng, Sp, It)
  • Colliding Epistemologies (1980), The Family Center Report (Georgetown University) 2(2) 4-7, 1980; (in French), Cahiers Critiques de Terapie Familliale et de Pratiques de Reseaux, 2(75-79), 1982; and S Perspectivas Sistemicas, 3(10), 1990, and 4(17), 1991. (Languages: Eng, Fr, Sp)
  • Prospective as a fourth area of the self (1980), Temas de Psicologia Social, 14:19-24, 1980. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Migration and Family Conflict (1979), Family Process, 1979, 18(4):379-390 [Also appeared as a chapter in R.H. Moos, (ed.): Coping with Life Crisis: New Perspectives. New York: Plenum, 1985; (in Spanish) in Terapia Familiar, 3(6):87-107, 1980; and (in Geman), as a chapter in T.Hegemann and R. Salman, Eds.:, Transkulturelle Pshychiatrie: Konzepte fur die Abeit mit Menschen aus anderen Kulturen. Bonn: Psychiatrie Velag, 2001.] (Languages: Eng, Sp, Ger)
  • Marital Therapy From a Systems Theory Perspective (1979), Chapter in T.J. Paolino & B.S. McCrady, Eds.: Marriage and Marital Therapy: Psychoanalytic, Behavioral, and Systems Theory Perspectives. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1978. Also included in L.F. Seltzer: Paradoxical Strategies in Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Overview and Guidebook. New York: Wiley, 1986. . Translated into Italian in Terapia Familiare, 6, (57-80), 1979; into Finnish in Perheterapia, 1(2):18-23, 1985 and 2(1):6-12,1986; and into Spanish, as a “classic”, in Mosaico, 2014 (in press) (Languages: Eng, Ital, Sp, Fin)
  • The decision to speak: a communicational study (1978), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1978, 24, 109-114. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • The Doctor-Family Relationship (1978), Chapter in R.B. Taylor, Ed.: Family Medicine, Principles and Practice, New York and Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1978. (Language: Eng)
  • Outcomes in Family Centered Medicine: New Goals, New Variables (1976), Chapter in: R.W., F.E. Manderscheid, Eds.: Systems Science and the Future of Health. Washington, DC: SFSR, 1976. (Language: Eng)
  • The 'Latin Lover' Revisited: An Ethnological-Communicational Analysis (1976), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1976, 22 S; and, in English, as a chapter in M. McGoldrick, J.K. Pearce & J. Giordano, Eds.: Ethnicity and Family Therapy. New York: Guilford, 1982. (Languages: Sp, Eng)
  • The Coalitionary Process in Initiating Family Therapy (1975), Family Process, 1975, 14(1), 67-77. Reproduced in J.C. Hansen & David Rosenthal, Eds.: Strategies and Techniques in Family Therapy. Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1981; and (in Italian) in V. Cigoli, Ed.: Interazione Familiare ed Intervento Psicoterapico. Milano: Franco Angeli, 1977. (Languages: Eng, Ital)
  • The Interactional Approach: A New Perspective for Psychiatric Action (1973), Chapter in: W.R. Grimson, (ed.): Nuevas Perspectivas en Salud Mental. Buenos Aires: Nueva Vision, 1973 (Language: Sp)
  • Interpersonal Effects of Semantic Patterns (1973), Chapter in Silvano Arieti, Ed.: The World Biennial of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, New York: Basic Books, 1973. (Language: Eng)
  • On training to Think Interactionally (1973), Social Science and Medicine, 1973, 8, 483-485. (Language: Eng)
  • Evaluation of psychiatric treatments in hospitalized patients: a research on efficacy (1973), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1973, 19, 87-99. (Language: Sp)
  • The Double Bind as Universal Pathogenic Situation (1971), Family Process, 1971, 10(4), 397-410. Also included as a chapter in 9b; and in P. Watzlawick & J.H. Weakland, Eds.: The Interactional View, New York: WW Norton, 1977; (in Italian) Aggiornamenti di Psicoterapia e Psicologia Clinica, 1(2), 1972 ; and (in French) in J.C. Benoit, (ed.): Changements Systemiques en Therapie Familiale. Paris: Editions ESF, 1980. (Languages: Eng, Sp, It, Ger, Fr)
  • From Intuition to Inquiry (1971), Revista Argentina de Psicologia, 1971, 10, 91-95 (Language: Sp)
  • Setting up a Psychiatric Service in a General Hospital (1971), Mental Hygiene, 1971, 55(1):85-90 (Language: Eng)
  • On Countertransference (1970), Revista de Psicoanalisis, 27(2): 107, 1970 (Language: Sp)
  • Communication and Neurosis: Semantic Components in Neurotic Verbal Behavior (1970), Social Science and Medicine, 1970, 4:75-96 (Language: Eng)
  • Semantic Structures and Countertransference (1970), Chapter in Patologia y Terapeutica del Grupo Familiar (Language: Sp)
  • A Homeostatic Principle of Family Interaction (1970), Chapter in Patologia y Terapeutica del Grupo Familiar (Language: Sp)
  • A Projective Interactional Test for Couples (1970), Chapter in Patologia y Terapeutica del Grupo Familiar (Language: Sp)
  • Family Interaction and Schizophrenia: I. Symmetry-Complementarity (1969), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1969, 15(4), 309-323 (Language: Sp)
  • Potential Sources of Distortion in Research Designs (1969), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1969, 15(3), 275. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Surgical Psychoprophilaxis: A Research on Efficacy (1969), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1969, 15(2), 261-264. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Symptoms and Family Interaction (1968), Interam. J. Psychol., 1968, 2(4):283-287. (Languages: Eng, Sp)
  • The Interactional Approach to the Treatment of Couples (1968), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol Amer. Lat., 1968, 14, 325-335; and as a chapter in 7b. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Alcohol and Psyche (1968), Tribuna Medica, 1968, 1, 25. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Attitudes towards Alcohol, Alcoholism and the Alcoholic (1968), Social Science and Medicine, 1968, 2, 29-39. (Language: Eng)
  • Transactional Disqualifications (1967), Arch Gen Psychiat,1967, 16, 494-504. Also included as a chapter in P. Watzlawick & J.H. Weakland, (eds.): The Interactional View. New York: WW Norton, 1977; and (in Italian) in V. Cigoli, (ed.): Sistema Familiare. Milan: Franco Angeli, 1977; (in Spanish) Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicologica de America Latina, 1966, 12, 329-342; and (in Czech) Kontext 1:3, 14-28, 1985. (Languages: Eng, Ital, Sp, Cz)
  • The Family Group of the Alcoholic (1967), Chapter in A. Horowitz, S. Marconi & G. Adis Castro, (eds.): Epidemiologia del Alcoholismo en American Latin. Buenos Aires: ACTA, 1967, and in 3b. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • The Neuroses as Communication System (1966), Chapter in Proceedings of the VI World Congress of Sociology (Evian, September, 1966), Vol. VI, 1970, pp. 301-18 (Language: Eng)
  • A Note on Metacommunication (1966), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1966, 12, 119-21 (in Spanish). An expanded version appeared (in French) in Cahiers Critiques de Therapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Reseaux, #13, 1991; and, in English, co-authored with J. Beavin Bavelas, as a chapter in J.H.Weakland and W.A.Ray, Eds.: Propagations: Thirty Years of Influence from the Mental Research Institute. Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 1995 (book translated into Italian and into German with the title “The Interactional Approach”) (Languages: Sp, Eng, Ital, Ger, Fr)
  • Linguistic Disturbances in Neurotic Communication (1966), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1966, 12, 129-44. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Psychiatry in the General Hospital (1966), Semana Medica, 1966. 128: 80-102. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Symmetry and Complementarity: An Operational Definition and Typology of Couples (1965), Chapter in P. Watzlawick and J.H. Weakland,(eds.): The Interactional View. New York: WW Norton, 1977. (Book translated into Italian as La Prospettiva Relazionale. Roma: Astrolabio, 1979 and into German as Interaktion, Bern: Huber, 1980). A prior version in Spanish appeared in Acta Psiquiat. Amer. Lat., 1965, 11, 321-328 (Languages: Sp, Eng, Ital, Ger)
  • Statistical Report Analysis of the Psychopathology and Neurology Service of the Lanus General Hospital (1965), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1965, 11, 145-147, and 1966, 12, 88-90. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • The Inpatient's Family Group (1963), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Arg., 1963, 9, 304-310. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Behavior Structures and Systems of Social Communication (1963), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Arg., 1963, 9, 279-304. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Psychotropic Medications in Psychiatry (1963), Terapeutica Clinica, 1(2), 1963:121-128. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Repercussion of a Social Commotion in the Hospital Setting: A Group Psychology Study with Inpatients (1963), Revista de Psicologia y Psicoterapia de Grupo, 1963, 11(3). (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Placebo Effect and Support Therapy in the Doctor-Patient Relationship (1962), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Arg., 1962, 8, 325-328. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Trifluoperazine in Schizophrenia (1962), Medicina Panamericana (Supl. Terap.), 1962, 1:10 (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Systematization of the Alcoholic Population on the Basis of its Prevalent Conflicts (1961), Rev. Psiquiatria, Neurologia y Neurocirugia de Rosario, 1961: Special Congress Issue, 98-102 (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Report on the Methodology of a Psychosocial Research about the Family Group of the Alcoholic (1961), Rev. Psiquiatria, Neurologia y Neurocirugia de Rosario, 1961: Special Congress Issue, 15-18. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Trifluorperazine in the Treatment of Chronic Delusions (1961), Acta Neuropsiquiat. Arg., 1961, 7, 136. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)
  • Our Experience in Clinical Psychopharmacology (1961), Acta Neuropsiquiat. Arg., 1961, 7, 85-89. (in Spanish) (Language: Sp)

(b) Books and films

  • Humillación y Vergüenza: Un diálogo entre enfoques sistémicos y psicoanalíticos (2022), (2022): Humillacion y Vergüenza: Un Dialogo entre enfoques sistemicos y psicoanaliticos. Second edition: Buenos Aires, Glova, 2022 [Spanish]
  • La Présence de L'absent: Réalisme Magique en Thérapie Familiale (2012), (2012): La Présence de L'absent: Réalisme Magique en Thérapie Familiale (in French) Paris, DeBoeck, 2016
  • La Presencia de la Ausencia: Terapia con Familias y Fantasmas (2012), (2012): La Presencia de la Ausencia: Terapia con Familias y Fantasmas (In Spanish), Argentina, Gedisa. [Spanish]
  • The Presence of the Absent: Therapy with Families with Ghosts (2012), (2012): Presence of the Absent: Therapy with Families with Ghosts (in English), Routledge, 2015. [English]
  • Shame and Humiliation: A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches (2011), (2011): Shame and Humiliation: A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches. Sao Paulo, Zagodoni Editora (in Portuguese) and Karnak, London, 2013. [English]
  • Terapia Familiar, Redes e Poetica Social (2007), (2007): Terapia Familiar, Redes e Poetica Social. Lisboa, Portugal, CLIMEPSI.
  • You Are Us (2003), (2003): You are Us. Script, executive production and direction of 30 minutes video-film, accompanied by group process ‘Manual for cross-cultural sensitization about immigrants.’ Community Resilience Project at Arlington/Fairfax Counties, and ICAR/George Mason University Production.
  • Teoria y Practica de la Terapia Sistemica (1999), (1999): Teoria y Practica de la Terapia Sistemica. Mexico, Edicion Cree-Ser (in Spanish)
  • La red social: Fronteras de la practica sistemica (1996), (1996): La red social: Fronteras de la practica sistemica. (in Spanish) Barcelona: Gedisa; and (in Portuguese) Sao Paulo: Casa do Psicologo, 1997. [Spanish]
  • Self Reference and Family Therapy (1989), (1989): Self Reference and Family Therapy. Paris: Privat, 1989. (in French + Spanish)
  • Contrasting Styles in Initial Family Interview (1978), (1978): Contrasting Styles in Initial Family Interview. Three training videotapes produced and distributed by Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, Brooklyn, New York.
  • Double-Bind: The Foundation of the Communication Approach to the Family (1976), (1976): Double-Bind: The Foundation of the Communication Approach to the Family, New York: Grune & Stratton (and in Italian: Roma: Astrolabio, 1979) [English]
  • Psicopatologia y Psicoterapia de la Pareja (1975), (1975): Psicopatologia y Psicoterapia de la Pareja. (Couple's Psychopathology and Psychotherapy). Nueva Vision (2nd Edition, 1979) (in Spanish); and (in Portuguese), Sao Paulo, Editorial Psy II, 1994 [Spanish]
  • Interaccion Familiar: Aportes Basicos Sobre Teoria y Tecnica (1971), (1971): Interaccion Familiar: Aportes Basicos Sobre Teoria y Tecnica (Family Interaction: Fundamental Contributions to Theory and Techniques). Buenos Aires: Tiempo Contemporaneo (in Spanish)
  • Patologia y Terapeutica del Grupo Familiar (1970), (1970): Patologia y Terapeutica del Grupo Familiar (Family Pathology and Treatment). Buenos Aires: ACTA (in Spanish). [Spanish]
  • Alcoholismo (1970), (1970): Alcoholismo. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor Argentino. (in Spanish)
  • Comunicacion y Neurosis (1970), (1970): Comunicacion y Neurosis. Buenos Aires: Editorial del Instituto. Second Edition: Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 1984. (in Spanish) [Spanish]
  • Lenguaje y comunicacion social (1969), (1969): Lenguaje y comunicacion social. Buenos Aires: Nueva Vision. (in Spanish)
  • Manual Diagnostico y Estadistico de Trastornos Mentales (1969), (1969): Adaptation of nomenclature for usage by Latin American Psychiatrists and supervision of translation of: Manual Diagnostico y Estadistico de Trastornos Mentales (DSM-II), (Translation of the DSM-II), Buenos Aires: ACTA. (in Spanish)
  • Behavior Patterns and Systems of Social Communication (1965), (1965): Behavior Patterns and Systems of Social Communication. Universidad de Buenos Aires Department of Sociology, Publication #78. (in Spanish)

(c) Prologues, editorials, and short pieces

  • Prologue (2020), De Haene, L & Rousseau, C., Eds.: Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press (Eng)
  • The Oak: A painting and its history (2017), Washington Psychiatrist, (Summer Issue) 6(2):11 (Eng)
  • Prologue (2014), Alicia Moreno, Ed: Manual de Terapia Sistemica: Principios y herramientas de intervencion. Bilbao, Desclee de Brower. (Sp)
  • “Double bind” and “Personal Social Networks” (2013), "Entries in Giorgio Nardone & Alessandro Salvini, Eds.: International Dictionary of Psychotherapies. Rome, Garzanti. ISBN (Eng)
  • Prologue (2012), Perrone, R. (2012): El Sindrome del Angel: Consideraciones acerca de la Violencia. Buenos Aires, Paidos (Sp)
  • Prologue (2012), Ramírez Arellano, A. (2012): Coaching para adictos: Integración y Exclusión Social. Madrid, Editorial Fundacion Atenea (Sp)
  • Family-based Psychiatric inpatient services: Avant garde practices in search of evidence-based validation (2011), European Family Therapy Association Newsletter, #6, February (Eng)
  • Epistemologies of discussants and of observed therapists (2011), European Family Therapy Association Newsletter, #6, February (Eng)
  • Prologue (2009), Wendel A. Ray, Ed.: Connectedness and Complexity: Selected Papers of Don D. Jackson, Volume 2: Conjoint Family Therapy and Beyond. Phoenix, Zeig, Tucker & Theisen. (Eng)
  • On victims and perpetrators (2008), Pagina 12, Psicologia, April 12, 2008 (Sp)
  • Prologue (2007), Perrone, R: Violencia y Abuso Sexual en la Familia (Fifth Edition). Buenos Aires, Paidos. (Sp)
  • Entervista (2007), (in Portuguese). Pensando Familia (Brasil), 11(1):41-46, 2007 (Port)
  • A tribute to Jay Haley 1923-2007 (2007), Journal of Family Therapy (UK), 29(2):97-99 (Eng)
  • Case Commentary (2007), Psychotherapy Networker, 31(2):85. (Eng)
  • Mauricio Goldenberg, M.D. (1916-2006): A major force in Latin American Psychiatry (2006), World Psychiatric Association E-Bulletin, September 2006. And, in Spanish, in Psicoanalisis, 27(3):471-75, 2006 (Eng)
  • Pionero de una nueva psiquiatria (2006), Le Monde Diplomatique (in Spanish) VIII (89): 36-37 (Sp)
  • Prologue (2006), A.Roizblatt, Ed.: Terapia Familiar y de Pareja. Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mediterraneo , 2006. (Sp)
  • Prologue (2005), Paulina Boss, Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss. New York, W. W. Norton 2005 (Eng)
  • Research as politics (2004), Dimensions, 7:11, 2004/2005 (Eng)
  • On Rituals (2004), Family Process e-Forum posted September, 2004 (Eng)
  • Psychotherapy Training: A round table (2004), Maieutica.21-22:9-20 (Ital)
  • Protecting the Health and Welfare of Staff, Victims and Witness: Report of a Seminar at the International Criminal Court. An Introduction (2004), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74(4): 571. (Eng)
  • Passing the torch (Editorial) (2004), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74(4):411-12. (Eng)
  • Some thoughts on Cecchin and family therapy (2004), AFTNC Newsletter, March; translated into Spanish in Sistemas Familiares, 20(1-2): 137-38, 2004 (Eng Sp)
  • Perhaps not Unexpected, Perhaps not Death: A Eulogy for Gianfranco Cecchin (1932-2004) (2004), Family Process, 43(2):143-5, 2004 (Eng)
  • Will Clytemnestra kill Cassandra? Listen to the next chapter: An (invited) commentary on the journal editor’s farewell Editorial (2004), Family Process Open Forum on line, March 2004 (Eng)
  • The World Health Organization, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, and Research in Third World Countries (Editorial) (2004), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74(2), 2004 (Eng)
  • Paris 1968 Revisited (Editorial) (2004), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74(1), 2004 (Eng)
  • What is in a name (Editorial) (2003), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73(3), 2003 (Eng)
  • Censorship Looming (Editorial) (2003), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73(2), 2003 (Eng)
  • Perhaps just a dream (Editorial) (2002), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72(4):467-8, 2002 (Eng)
  • Seeding violence in the mind of children (Ediorial) (2002), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72 (1): 2002 (translated into Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas, 14(1) 2002) (Eng Sp)
  • Bridging two continents: An AFTA-EFTA plenary session (2001), AFTA Newsletter, 2001 (Eng)
  • Clinical research and the Third World (Editorial) (2001), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 71(3):276-7, 2001 (Eng)
  • Drug-Company Influence on Medical Education in the USA (Editorial) (2001), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70(2):148-9, 2001 (Eng)
  • Introduction (2000), M. Mariotti and R. Frison: Relazioni Terapeutiche e Adolescenti Multiproblematici. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2000. (Ital)
  • Interview (2000), Mosaico (Spain), 14:33-39, 1999 and Campo Grupal (Argentina), 3 (17): 2, 2000 (Sp)
  • Salutation (Editorial) (1999), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1999 (Eng)
  • In Memoriam Mara Selvini Palazzoli (1999), Family Process, 38(4): 1999 (Eng)
  • Foreword (1999), Diez, F. and Tapia, G.: Mediacion: Experiencias y Aportes Conceptuales. Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1999 (Sp)
  • Foreword (1998), Dabas, E.: Redes Sociales, Familias y Escuela. Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1998 (in Spanish) (Sp)
  • An appreciation of Edgar H. Auerswald (1998), Family Systems and Health, 6(3): 309314, 1998 (Eng)
  • On Child Sexual Abuse (1998), (Editorial) The Bulletin - A Journal of Berkshire Medical Center, 2(4): 1,1989. (Eng)
  • Prologue (1997), J. Droeven, ed.: Mas Alla de Pactos y Traiciones: Construyendo el Dialogo Terapeutico. Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1997. (Sp)
  • Prologue/foreword (1997), M.Auspitz and D.Wang: De Terapias y Personas: El Encuentro, un Enfoque Humanistico. Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 1997. (Sp)
  • John Weakland, timid guru (1996), Psychotherapy Networker, 1996 (Eng)
  • Prologue-introduction (1996), French edition of S. Minuchin and M. Nichols: Family Healing: Strategies for Hope and Understanding. Paris, ESF Editeur, 1996. (Fr)
  • Discussions (1996), “Simulation of a therapy session”, Chapter 1; Discussion-conclusion to “Systems, evolution, change”, Chapter 4 (in French) in M.Elkaim & E.Trappeniers, Eds.: Etapes d’une Evolution: Approche Systemique et Therapie Familiale. Paris, Privat, 1993 (translated into Spanish: La Terapia Familiar en Transformacion. Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1998); (Eng Sp)
  • Dialogue (1995), In D. F. Schnitman (ed.): New Paradigms, Culture and Subjectivity, book published in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, respectively, by Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1995; Porto Alegre, Artes Medicas, 1996; and Hampton Press, 2001 (Eng Sp Port)
  • Foreword (1995), G.Demicheli M.: Comunicacion en Terapia Familiar Sistemica: Bosquejo de una Epistemologia Cibernetica. Valparaiso, Chile, U of Valparaiso Press, 1995 (in Spanish) (Sp)
  • Foreword (1994), M. Andolfi and R. Haber, Eds.: Please Help Me With This Family: Using Consultants as Resources in Family Therapy. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1994 (Wng)
  • Case Commentary 2 (1993), Short piece in The Family Therapy Networker, June 1993; and in R.Simon, L.Markowitz, C.Barrilleaux, B.Topping, Eds.: The Art of Psychotherapy: Case Studies from the Family Therapy Networker. New York, Wiley & Sons, 1999. (Eng)
  • Um dialogo com a America Latina (1992), (in Portuguese) Nova Perspectiva Sistemica, 1(2), 1992 (Port)
  • The lung in context (1992), (Editorial), The Bulletin - A Journal of Berkshire Medical Center, V(2): 1, 1992. (Eng)
  • Foreword (1992), R. Casabianca & H. Hirsch: Como Equivocarse Menos en Terapia. Santa Fe (Argentina), Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Press, 1992. (Sp)
  • Epilogue (1992), B. Furman & T. Ahola: Solution Talk: Hosting Therapeutic Conversations. New York: WW Norton, 1992 (Eng)
  • Foreword (1991), H.v.Foerster: Las Semillas de la Cibernetica. Barcelona, Gedisa, 1991 (in Spanish) (Sp)
  • Donald A. Bloch, Ambassador Extraordinaire (1991), Family Therapy News 22(4):5, 1991 (Eng)
  • Foreword (1991), F. Walsh & M. McGoldrick, “Living beyond Loss: Death in the Family. New York: WW Norton, 1991. Part of this foreword was also published in Family Systems Medicine, 9(1): 1-3, 1991. Translated into Spanish as “Donde tiene lugar la cura?” en Alternativas en Psicoterapia, 1(2), 1991. (Eng)
  • Foreword (1990), M. Nichols and R. Schwartz: Family Therapy. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1990 (Eng)
  • Epilogue (1990), P. Busso & P. Stradoni: Come Communicate Cogli Altri: Visione Binoculare e Complessita. Torino: Sonda, 1990. (Ital)
  • Traveling Through the Tunnel of Time: The Berkshire Medical Journal (1990), The Bulletin - Journal of Berkshire Medical Center III(3): 5, 1990. (Eng)
  • Introduction (1990), Family Process, 29(2) (Supl.: Cumulative Index 1962-1986), 3-5, 1990 (Eng)
  • Conversations (1989), Joint chapter in D. Kantor & B.Okun (eds.): Intimate Environments: Sex, Intimacy and Gender in Families. New York: Guilford, 1989. (Eng)
  • Foreword (1988), Foreword to N. Bendersky: Es posible disfrutar el matrimonio? Buenos Aires: Nueva Vision, 1988(in Spanish) (Sp)
  • Several entries In J.C. Benoit et al.: Le Dictionnaire Clinique des Therapies Familiales Systemiques, Paris (1988), Editions Sociales Francaises, 1988 (in French) (Fr)
  • Constructivism Applied. Commentary II (1988), The Family Therapy Networker, 12(5): 79-81, 1988.
  • Mapping the journey over twenty-five years (Editorial) (1987), Family Process, 26 (149-52), 1987. (Eng)
  • Foreword (1985), Marsha P. Mirkin & Stuart L. Koman, (eds.): Handbook of Adolescents and Family TherapyNew York: Gardner, 1985. (Eng)
  • Foreword (1985), John Schwartzman, (ed.): Macro-Systemic Approaches to Family Therapy New York: Guilford Press, 1985. (Eng)
  • On Sharing Marital problems with the Children (1981), Short chapter in L.H. Gross, ed.: The Parents' Guide to Teenagers, New York: MacMillan, 1981. (Eng)
  • “Communicacion” and “Familia” (1977), (in Spanish) Entries in: G. Vidal, H. & Bleichmar, R.H. Usandivaras, (eds.): Enciclopedia de Psiquiatria, Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1977. (in Spanish) (Sp)
  • Foreword (1970), P. Watzlawick, J. H. Beavin & D. D. Jackson: Teoria de la Comunicacion Humana, (Pragmatics of Human Communication) Buenos Aires: Tiempo Contemporaneo, 1970. (A revised prologue has been included in the new edition, Barcelona: Herder, 1982) (in Spanish). (Sp)
  • Foreword (1969), G.Bateson: Metalogues. Buenos Aires: Tiempo Contemporaneo, 1969 (in Spanish). (Sp)
  • Conference on the Etiology of Schizophrenia: A Report (1967), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1967, 13, 187-196 and 1967, 13, 293-4. (in Spanish) (Sp)
  • Gregory Bateson and his Metalogues (1966), Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat, 12:188-89, 1966. (Sp)

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  • Fluent Spanish (native language)
  • Fluent English
  • Fluent Italian
  • Conversational/reading French

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