Articles and Book Chapters
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Hegemony, Migration and Developmental Cycle: A Family Consultation
Chapter In Cereijido, M., Ed.: Challenging Psychoanalysts’ Prejudices about Changing Notions of Femininity. London, Karnak (Ms. accepted, book in preparation).
De la prehistoria a los albores de la terapia familiar
Sistemas Familiares, 33(1):56-60. ISSN 1668-7124
The impact of authoritarian regimes on families… and on the therapist
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. DOI: 10.1002/anzf.1237
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In search of a new identity: An institutional consultation at a sub-acute inpatient unit in a general hospital
Family, Systems and Health, 35(1), Mar 2017,70-76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000245
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Proxemics in couple interactions: Rekindling an old optic
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.
Storks with bad omens: Disagreements about pregnancy and their impact on couples and on children
(in Spanish) Redes, 31: 9-24
The transdisciplinary future of systemic therapy
(in Spanish) Mosaico, 57: 63-78
Modeling negotiation using ‘Narrative grammar’: Exploring the evolution of meaning in a simulated negotiation
Group Decision and Negotiation, 23(5): 1047-1065
Harlow, Bowlby and children in the context of extreme violence
Chapter 2 in Proceedings of the 3d, International Congress on Brief and Family Therapy. CEFAP, Puebla, Mexico
Who pursues whom? Kinetic digressions on couples interaction
(in Spanish) Psicoterapia y Familia, 26(1):5-12
Acerca de la curiosidad: Evolucion de moralejas en la historia de Barbazul
(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,
The group therapist as social network enhancer: A new area of inquiry
Forum (journal of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Process), 5:55-68
Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t: Dilemmas of Internally Displaced Populations
Global Studies Review, 7(1) Spring
Redes Sociales y salud: Circulos viciosos y circulos virtuosos
(in Spanish) In Proceedings of the XVIII World IFTA Congress (March 17-20, 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Bologna, Italy, Medimond. pp.19-25.
A manera de epilogo
(in Spanish) Chapter in Chimpen C A and Sagrado S, Eds : Mediacion: La Busqueda del Camino Alternativo. Argentina
Personal social networks and health: Conceptual and clinical implications of their reciprocal impact
Family Systems and Health, 28(1): 1-18
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On Sorrow: Medical Advice from Isahq ben Sulayman al-Israel 1,000 Years ago
Am J Psychiat 167(4):387
Between projects and regrets: Social network maps of three young female immigrants
Chapter in Cigoli, V & Gennari M, Eds.: Close relationships and community psychology: An International perspective. Milan, Franco Angeli
The pathway between conflict and reconciliation: Coexistence as an evolutionary process
Transcultural Psychiatry, 47(1): 55-69
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Introduction
Chapter in Richeport-Haley, M & Carlson J, Eds.: Jay Haley Revisited . London, Routledge.
Difficult babies, difficult parents: Toward a model based on a reciprocal fit
(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)
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From the schizophrenogenic mother to the genotypic vulnerability: Update on the theme ‘Family and schizophrenia’
(in Spanish) Revista Lationamericana de Psiquiatria, 9:24-34 and, in Italian, in Psicobietttivo, 29(2):137-154, 2009
Migration: A social networks perspective
(in Italian) Chapter for Scabini, E. & Rossi, G (2008): La migrazione come evento familiare. (Migration as a family event). Milan, Vita e Pensiero Press
Saudades at the edge of the self and the merits of portable families
Transcultural Psychiatry, 45:379-390
The Ancient Cult of Madame: When therapists trade curiosity for certainty
Journal of Family Therapy (UK), 30:119-130. A previous version appeared in Portuguese in Pensando Familias (Brazil), 11(1): 29-40, 2007
Migration and the disruption of the social network
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)
Lyman C. Wynne and the transformation of the field of family-and-schizophrenia
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
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Therapeutic blueprints for patients trapped in shame or humiliation generating stories
(in Spanish). Perspectivas Sistemicas, 19(94-95):3-5, March
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The interface between family and genomics
Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 18(1):1-9. A previous version was published in Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas, 17(87):3-6, 2005
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Victimization, recovery, and the ‘better formed’ stories
(in Spanish) Sistemas Familiares, 22(1-2):5-20
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Short term heaven, long term limbo: A visit to a refugee camp in Rwanda
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
Deception and fear in politically oppressive contexts: The trickle-down effect on families
Review of Policy Research, 22(5): 625-35.
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A family approach to severe mental illness in post-war Kosova
Psychiatry 68(1):17-27.
A house taken over by ghosts: Culture, migration and developmental cycle in a Moroccan family invaded by hallucinations
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
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Hin und Zurück: Back from when we come from
Chapter in F.Walsh and M.McGoldrick, Eds.: Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd. Edition. New York, Norton.
Small steps and big leaps: A crisis in a traditional Kosovar family in an era of cultural transition
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
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The process toward reconciliation
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
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Memory, remembrances and transformations of Lanus: Homage to the mentor
Psicoanalisis, 24(2-3): 471-178 (in Spanish)
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Families Imploding: The Loosening of the social fabric and the decline of social responsibility at the dawn of the 21st. Century
J. Family Psychotherapy, 14 (1).
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Humiliation, social crisis, and social networks: A Conversation
Sistemas Familiares, 18(3):5-17 (in Spanish)
Psychosocial scenarios following a bioterrorist attack
Chapter in T. Woodcock, Ed: Perceive Threat and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism (provisional title, book in preparation).
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All those in favor of saving the planet, please raise your hand: A comment about ‘Family therapy saves the planet’
J. Mariage and Family Therapy, 27(1): 13-15.
Narratives of violence, narratives of recovery
(In Norwegian) Fokus pa Familien 2000-1: 3-18.
Patients, clients, consumers: The politics of words
Family, Systems and Health 18(3):347-352.
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Social Networks and the Elderly: Conceptual and Clinical Issues, and a Family Consultation
Family Process, 39(3):271-284. A version in Spanish appeared in Sistemas Familiares, 15(3):29-39, 1999
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On violence: A creed for therapists
J. Family Psychotherapy 11(2): 1-8. An uptaded version was published (in Spanish) in Sistemas Familiares, 20(1-2): 17-23, 2004
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Creative Conversations: Meetings with Family Therapists and their Ideas
Chapter (in Swedish) in G. Berglund and E. Abrahamsson, Eds. Smedjebacken, Sweden, Mareld Books, 2000
The evolving context of the family therapy field: An overview
American Family Therapy Academy Newsletter 77:9-10, 1999
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The crisis of masculinity: An evolutionary perspective
In Spanish in Perspectivas Sistemicas, 12(57):3-8, 1999, and in Terapia y Familia, 17(1):3-17, 2004.
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Qualitative and quantitative research: A constructionist perspective
(in French) Therapie Familiale, 19(3):255-263, 1999; and (in Spanish) Redes, 5:73-84, 1999
Language, practices and record-keeping: A reflective consultation and some changes that resulted from it
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
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In search of the lost family: A footnote to Munichin’s article
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
Strange attractors and the transformation of narratives in therapy
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
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A family interview
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)
Migration and the disruption of the social network
Chapter in McGoldrick, M. ed.: Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice. New York, Guilford Press, 1998
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Rekindling the experience of freedom: From the personal to the collective... and back
Human Systems, 8(3-4):225-238, 1997
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Getting married and un-married: Vicissitudes of the social network during marriage and divorce
Generations, 5:44-51, 1995 (in French)
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The impact of the social network on the health of the individual and of health of the individual on the social network
Chapter in E. Dabas and D.Najmanovich, Eds.: Redes Sociales: El Lenguaje de los Vinculos. Buenos Aires, Paidos, 1995 (in Spanish)
A narrative-based, practice-oriented approach to schizophrenia
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
The ‘eigen-values’ of stories
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
Reclaiming words, reclaiming worlds
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
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Social network and systemic/family approaches
In Spanish in Familia (Spain) 9:7-20, 1994
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The generative context of ‘Pragmatics of Human Communication’: A personal reminiscence
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.
Toward a general model of family and political victimization
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.
The social network: Frontier of systemic therapy
(In French) Therapie Familiale, 14(3):239-251.
Transformations: A blueprint for narrative changes in therapy
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.
The 'better-formed' story
Chapter (in Italian) in G. Cecchin and M. Mariotti, (eds.): L'Adolescente e i suoi Sistemi. Rome: Kappa. (pp.37-47)
Disruption and reconstruction of networks following migration / relocation
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.
The emergence of narratives as focus of therapy
(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.
Family’s ideology and therapists’ ideology: A debate
Chapter (in French) in Y. Rey and B. Prieur, (eds.): Systemes, Etique, Perspectives en Therapie Familiale. Paris: ESF.
Disappeared: Semantic and Somatic Effects of Political Repression in a Family Seeking Therapy
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.
Family secrets and personal differentiation: A clinical case
The Bulletin (Berkshire Medical Center), 3(2): 11-14.
Negative explanation, drawing distinctions, raising dilemmas, collapsing time, externalization of problems: A note on some powerful conceptual tools
Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 7(3): 33-37.
Carl Auer as Smuggler
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.
Systemic Blueprint in a Therapeutic Conversation
Chapter in R. Chasin, H. Grunebaum & M. Herzig: One Couple, Four Realities: Multiple Perspectives in Couple Therapy. New York: Guilford.
Self reference and family therapy: An introduction
Chapter (in French) in 10b
On Training and Practice in Family Therapy
(In Spanish in) Perspectivas Sistemicas, 3(10)
Jealousy: A parable revisited
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.
Recent research on schizophrenia and the family: An update
(in Italian) Atraverso lo Specchio, 6(2): 9-32.
From generation to generation: a commentary
(In French) Cahiers Critiques de Therapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Reseaux, 8:35-38.
Patient-agency system and the maintenance of chronic problems: Analysis of a consultation with an agency's staff
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.
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and the Family System
Psychosomatics, 28(4): 206-8.
On the ephemeral nature of paradox in therapy
(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.
A minimal map of cybernetics
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.
Family Consultation in Family Medicine: A Case Example
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.
Creativity and Training
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.)
Simulated session, consultation and discussion
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.)
Families, Networks and Other Strange Shapes
AFTA Newsletter, 19; and (in Spanish) Sistemas Familiares, 2(1):61-4, 1985.
Family therapy as construction of alternative realities
Sistemas Familiares. 1(1):58. (in Spanish)
The Patient-Provider-Translator Triad: A Note For Providers
Family Systems Medicine, 2(4):397-.
Process, Structure and World Views: Toward an Integrated View of Systemic Models in Family Therapy
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.
Psychology and cancer: expanding the boundaries of our ignorance
Psychologie Medicale, 15(a): 134-7, 1983.
How to stake a territory in the field of Family Therapy in three easy lessons
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.
The sounds of silence: two case of elective mutism in bilingual families
Chapter in Falicov, CJ, (ed.): Cultural Perspectives in Family Therapy. Rockville, MD: Aspen, 1983.
Bumping against walls: Resistance as a misnomer
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.
A Brief Rejoinder to a Brief Rejoinder
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
Process of Symptom Production and Patterns of Symptom Maintenance
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.
Colliding Epistemologies
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.
Prospective as a fourth area of the self
Temas de Psicologia Social, 14:19-24, 1980. (in Spanish)
Migration and Family Conflict
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.]
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Marital Therapy From a Systems Theory Perspective
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)
The decision to speak: a communicational study
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1978, 24, 109-114. (in Spanish)
The Doctor-Family Relationship
Chapter in R.B. Taylor, Ed.: Family Medicine, Principles and Practice, New York and Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1978.
Outcomes in Family Centered Medicine: New Goals, New Variables
Chapter in: R.W., F.E. Manderscheid, Eds.: Systems Science and the Future of Health. Washington, DC: SFSR, 1976.
The 'Latin Lover' Revisited: An Ethnological-Communicational Analysis
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.
The Coalitionary Process in Initiating Family Therapy
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.
The Interactional Approach: A New Perspective for Psychiatric Action
Chapter in: W.R. Grimson, (ed.): Nuevas Perspectivas en Salud Mental. Buenos Aires: Nueva Vision, 1973
Interpersonal Effects of Semantic Patterns
Chapter in Silvano Arieti, Ed.: The World Biennial of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, New York: Basic Books, 1973.
On training to Think Interactionally
Social Science and Medicine, 1973, 8, 483-485.
Evaluation of psychiatric treatments in hospitalized patients: a research on efficacy
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1973, 19, 87-99.
The Double Bind as Universal Pathogenic Situation
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.
From Intuition to Inquiry
Revista Argentina de Psicologia, 1971, 10, 91-95
Setting up a Psychiatric Service in a General Hospital
Mental Hygiene, 1971, 55(1):85-90
On Countertransference
Revista de Psicoanalisis, 27(2): 107, 1970
Communication and Neurosis: Semantic Components in Neurotic Verbal Behavior
Social Science and Medicine, 1970, 4:75-96
Semantic Structures and Countertransference
Chapter in Patologia y Terapeutica del Grupo Familiar
A Homeostatic Principle of Family Interaction
Chapter in Patologia y Terapeutica del Grupo Familiar
A Projective Interactional Test for Couples
Chapter in Patologia y Terapeutica del Grupo Familiar
Family Interaction and Schizophrenia: I. Symmetry-Complementarity
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1969, 15(4), 309-323
Potential Sources of Distortion in Research Designs
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1969, 15(3), 275. (in Spanish)
Surgical Psychoprophilaxis: A Research on Efficacy
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1969, 15(2), 261-264. (in Spanish)
Symptoms and Family Interaction
Interam. J. Psychol., 1968, 2(4):283-287.
The Interactional Approach to the Treatment of Couples
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol Amer. Lat., 1968, 14, 325-335; and as a chapter in 7b. (in Spanish)
Alcohol and Psyche
Tribuna Medica, 1968, 1, 25. (in Spanish)
Attitudes towards Alcohol, Alcoholism and the Alcoholic
Social Science and Medicine, 1968, 2, 29-39.
Transactional Disqualifications
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.
The Family Group of the Alcoholic
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)
The Neuroses as Communication System
Chapter in Proceedings of the VI World Congress of Sociology (Evian, September, 1966), Vol. VI, 1970, pp. 301-18
A Note on Metacommunication
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”)
Linguistic Disturbances in Neurotic Communication
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1966, 12, 129-44. (in Spanish)
Psychiatry in the General Hospital
Semana Medica, 1966. 128: 80-102. (in Spanish)
Symmetry and Complementarity: An Operational Definition and Typology of Couples
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
Statistical Report Analysis of the Psychopathology and Neurology Service of the Lanus General Hospital
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Amer. Lat., 1965, 11, 145-147, and 1966, 12, 88-90. (in Spanish)
The Inpatient's Family Group
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Arg., 1963, 9, 304-310. (in Spanish)
Behavior Structures and Systems of Social Communication
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Arg., 1963, 9, 279-304. (in Spanish)
Psychotropic Medications in Psychiatry
Terapeutica Clinica, 1(2), 1963:121-128. (in Spanish)
Repercussion of a Social Commotion in the Hospital Setting: A Group Psychology Study with Inpatients
Revista de Psicologia y Psicoterapia de Grupo, 1963, 11(3). (in Spanish)
Placebo Effect and Support Therapy in the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Acta Psiquiat. Psicol. Arg., 1962, 8, 325-328. (in Spanish)
Trifluoperazine in Schizophrenia
Medicina Panamericana (Supl. Terap.), 1962, 1:10 (in Spanish)
Systematization of the Alcoholic Population on the Basis of its Prevalent Conflicts
Rev. Psiquiatria, Neurologia y Neurocirugia de Rosario, 1961: Special Congress Issue, 98-102 (in Spanish)
Report on the Methodology of a Psychosocial Research about the Family Group of the Alcoholic
Rev. Psiquiatria, Neurologia y Neurocirugia de Rosario, 1961: Special Congress Issue, 15-18. (in Spanish)
Trifluorperazine in the Treatment of Chronic Delusions
Acta Neuropsiquiat. Arg., 1961, 7, 136. (in Spanish)
Our Experience in Clinical Psychopharmacology
Acta Neuropsiquiat. Arg., 1961, 7, 85-89. (in Spanish)
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