Articles and Book Chapters
How, of all the millions of people…: Reexamination of a question from an early MRI research project
El grupo terapéutico como ‘banda de hermanos’: Una visión desde la óptica de la red social personal.
Les histoires bien formées: Vers l’orientation et evaluation des transformations narratives en thérapie
Verón En 'El Año 2000->
Hegemony, Migration and Developmental Cycle: A Family Consultation
De la prehistoria a los albores de la terapia familiar
The impact of authoritarian regimes on families… and on the therapist
In search of a new identity: An institutional consultation at a sub-acute inpatient unit in a general hospital
Proxemics in couple interactions: Rekindling an old optic
Storks with bad omens: Disagreements about pregnancy and their impact on couples and on children
The transdisciplinary future of systemic therapy
Modeling negotiation using ‘Narrative grammar’: Exploring the evolution of meaning in a simulated negotiation
Harlow, Bowlby and children in the context of extreme violence
Who pursues whom? Kinetic digressions on couples interaction
Acerca de la curiosidad: Evolucion de moralejas en la historia de Barbazul
The group therapist as social network enhancer: A new area of inquiry
Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t: Dilemmas of Internally Displaced Populations
Redes Sociales y salud: Circulos viciosos y circulos virtuosos
A manera de epilogo
Personal social networks and health: Conceptual and clinical implications of their reciprocal impact
On Sorrow: Medical Advice from Isahq ben Sulayman al-Israel 1,000 Years ago
Between projects and regrets: Social network maps of three young female immigrants
The pathway between conflict and reconciliation: Coexistence as an evolutionary process
Introduction
Difficult babies, difficult parents: Toward a model based on a reciprocal fit
From the schizophrenogenic mother to the genotypic vulnerability: Update on the theme ‘Family and schizophrenia’
Migration: A social networks perspective
Saudades at the edge of the self and the merits of portable families
The Ancient Cult of Madame: When therapists trade curiosity for certainty
Migration and the disruption of the social network
Lyman C. Wynne and the transformation of the field of family-and-schizophrenia
Therapeutic blueprints for patients trapped in shame or humiliation generating stories
The interface between family and genomics
Victimization, recovery, and the ‘better formed’ stories
Short term heaven, long term limbo: A visit to a refugee camp in Rwanda
Deception and fear in politically oppressive contexts: The trickle-down effect on families
A family approach to severe mental illness in post-war Kosova
A house taken over by ghosts: Culture, migration and developmental cycle in a Moroccan family invaded by hallucinations
Hin und Zurück: Back from when we come from
Small steps and big leaps: A crisis in a traditional Kosovar family in an era of cultural transition
The process toward reconciliation
Memory, remembrances and transformations of Lanus: Homage to the mentor
Families Imploding: The Loosening of the social fabric and the decline of social responsibility at the dawn of the 21st. Century
Humiliation, social crisis, and social networks: A Conversation
Psychosocial scenarios following a bioterrorist attack
All those in favor of saving the planet, please raise your hand: A comment about ‘Family therapy saves the planet’
Narratives of violence, narratives of recovery
Patients, clients, consumers: The politics of words
Social Networks and the Elderly: Conceptual and Clinical Issues, and a Family Consultation
On violence: A creed for therapists
Creative Conversations: Meetings with Family Therapists and their Ideas
The evolving context of the family therapy field: An overview
The crisis of masculinity: An evolutionary perspective
Qualitative and quantitative research: A constructionist perspective
Language, practices and record-keeping: A reflective consultation and some changes that resulted from it
In search of the lost family: A footnote to Munichin’s article
Strange attractors and the transformation of narratives in therapy
A family interview
Migration and the disruption of the social network
Rekindling the experience of freedom: From the personal to the collective... and back
Getting married and un-married: Vicissitudes of the social network during marriage and divorce
The impact of the social network on the health of the individual and of health of the individual on the social network
A narrative-based, practice-oriented approach to schizophrenia
The ‘eigen-values’ of stories
Reclaiming words, reclaiming worlds
Social network and systemic/family approaches
The generative context of ‘Pragmatics of Human Communication’: A personal reminiscence
Toward a general model of family and political victimization
The social network: Frontier of systemic therapy
Transformations: A blueprint for narrative changes in therapy
The 'better-formed' story
Disruption and reconstruction of networks following migration / relocation
The emergence of narratives as focus of therapy
Family’s ideology and therapists’ ideology: A debate
Disappeared: Semantic and Somatic Effects of Political Repression in a Family Seeking Therapy
Family secrets and personal differentiation: A clinical case
Negative explanation, drawing distinctions, raising dilemmas, collapsing time, externalization of problems: A note on some powerful conceptual tools
Carl Auer as Smuggler
Systemic Blueprint in a Therapeutic Conversation
Self reference and family therapy: An introduction
On Training and Practice in Family Therapy
Jealousy: A parable revisited
Recent research on schizophrenia and the family: An update
From generation to generation: a commentary
Patient-agency system and the maintenance of chronic problems: Analysis of a consultation with an agency's staff
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and the Family System
On the ephemeral nature of paradox in therapy
A minimal map of cybernetics
Family Consultation in Family Medicine: A Case Example
Creativity and Training
Simulated session, consultation and discussion
Families, Networks and Other Strange Shapes
Family therapy as construction of alternative realities
The Patient-Provider-Translator Triad: A Note For Providers
Process, Structure and World Views: Toward an Integrated View of Systemic Models in Family Therapy
Psychology and cancer: expanding the boundaries of our ignorance
How to stake a territory in the field of Family Therapy in three easy lessons
The sounds of silence: two case of elective mutism in bilingual families
Bumping against walls: Resistance as a misnomer
A Brief Rejoinder to a Brief Rejoinder
Process of Symptom Production and Patterns of Symptom Maintenance
Colliding Epistemologies
Prospective as a fourth area of the self
Migration and Family Conflict
Marital Therapy From a Systems Theory Perspective
The decision to speak: a communicational study
The Doctor-Family Relationship
Outcomes in Family Centered Medicine: New Goals, New Variables
The 'Latin Lover' Revisited: An Ethnological-Communicational Analysis
The Coalitionary Process in Initiating Family Therapy
The Interactional Approach: A New Perspective for Psychiatric Action
Interpersonal Effects of Semantic Patterns
On training to Think Interactionally
Evaluation of psychiatric treatments in hospitalized patients: a research on efficacy
The Double Bind as Universal Pathogenic Situation
From Intuition to Inquiry
Setting up a Psychiatric Service in a General Hospital
On Countertransference
Communication and Neurosis: Semantic Components in Neurotic Verbal Behavior
Semantic Structures and Countertransference
A Homeostatic Principle of Family Interaction
A Projective Interactional Test for Couples
Family Interaction and Schizophrenia: I. Symmetry-Complementarity
Potential Sources of Distortion in Research Designs
Surgical Psychoprophilaxis: A Research on Efficacy
Symptoms and Family Interaction
The Interactional Approach to the Treatment of Couples
Alcohol and Psyche
Attitudes towards Alcohol, Alcoholism and the Alcoholic
Transactional Disqualifications
The Family Group of the Alcoholic
The Neuroses as Communication System
A Note on Metacommunication
Linguistic Disturbances in Neurotic Communication
Psychiatry in the General Hospital
Symmetry and Complementarity: An Operational Definition and Typology of Couples
Statistical Report Analysis of the Psychopathology and Neurology Service of the Lanus General Hospital
The Inpatient's Family Group
Behavior Structures and Systems of Social Communication
Psychotropic Medications in Psychiatry
Repercussion of a Social Commotion in the Hospital Setting: A Group Psychology Study with Inpatients
Placebo Effect and Support Therapy in the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Trifluoperazine in Schizophrenia
Systematization of the Alcoholic Population on the Basis of its Prevalent Conflicts
Report on the Methodology of a Psychosocial Research about the Family Group of the Alcoholic
Trifluorperazine in the Treatment of Chronic Delusions
Our Experience in Clinical Psychopharmacology
Most Recent Articles
The impact of authoritarian regimes on families… and on the therapist
Repressive powers – authoritarian governments being the focus of this article, but it applies to any oppressive relationship – require of the part of the oppressed not only obedience but denial of the oppressive nature of their submission. There is a slippery slope from experiencing the imposed nature of the oppressive rules to adapting to them to denying both internal and external evidence of their existence. When totalitarianism appears on the political and interpersonal horizon, it is imperative to prevent that declining process by retaining the critical capacity to speak and to rebel against any oppressive injunction. It is equally important to help people – therapist included—coming out of tyranny to recover the words and the agency lost in their previous experiences.
Published in 2017Read in ENGLISHIn search of a new identity: An institutional consultation at a sub-acute inpatient unit in a general hospital
An institutional consultation was conducted by the author at a Sub Acute Inpatient Unit of a general hospital, requested due to profound malaise in its personnel. The process of the consultation and the narrative shift that was anchored by some procedural changes led to a remarkable improvement in the daily experiences of the staff. A subsequent discussion of traits of this intervention allows offering some guidelines about institutional consultations and change.
Published in 2017Read in ENGLISHPersonal social networks and health: Conceptual and clinical implications of their reciprocal impact
Social networks impact positively or negatively a person’s health, and a persons’ health affects, in turn, their network’s availability. This article discusses this double dynamics, recommends the routine exploration of patient’s social networks, and offers a mapping tool that will allow to detect strengths and weaknesses of those processes, so as to facilitate interventions to improve the social support’s health-enhancing effect.
Published in 2010Read in ENGLISHThe pathway between conflict and reconciliation: Coexistence as an evolutionary process
A normative sequence of stages is proposed in the fragile and slow evolution from open conflict toward harmonious coexistence as well at its devolution from the latter to the former.
Published in 2010Read in ENGLISHDifficult babies, difficult parents: Toward a model based on a reciprocal fit
The assumption that healthy newborns are mainly a bundle of joy and fulfillment for parents clashes with the fact that, every once in a while, a baby is born that is experienced by the parents (and sometimes by the community of consulting professionals) as predominantly difficult and frustrating – and, perhaps, if babies could talk, vice-versa! This may generate vicious cycles evolving into problematic self-fulfilling prophecies. This paper discusses the complex problem of the reciprocal fit (and occasional misfit) between parental and babies styles.
Published in 2009Read in SPANISH