Mara Selvini Palazzoli

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Mara Selvini Palazzoli (born August 15, 1916 in Milan , † June 21, 1999 there ) was an Italian psychoanalyst . She developed the “Milan Model” , a procedure in systemic family therapy .

Life

Mara Selvini Palazzoli was a daughter of the merchants Daniele (1880–1962) and Italia Palazzoli (1887–1941). She had four siblings, two older brothers, an older sister and a younger brother. She spent the first three years of her life with a simple farming family, where she felt very much loved. Later she attended a strict monastery school of the Suore Marcelline until her Maturità . She then completed a medical degree and then a specialist training as an internist at the University Hospital of Milan. In her work, she got to know young women suffering from anorexia nervosa and developed an interest in psychotherapy during treatment . She initially trained as a psychiatrist and began training as a psychoanalyst in the early 1950s . However, the results of this work did not satisfy her, and she began to engage in family therapy.

In 1967, Selvini Palazzoli and seven other psychologists and psychoanalysts founded the Centro per lo Studio della Famiglia e delle tecniche di Gruppo in Milan , the first family therapy center in Italy. Initially, she retained a psychoanalytic basis in the therapy, but included the patient's family in the therapy: In family therapy, the therapist is not only dependent on the patient's subjective statements, but can also understand the situation from the perspective of those around him capture. The therapeutic work tries to influence the relationships between family members. Later, Palazzoli considered psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud's drive theory and his idea of ​​an "original autism " no longer to be a sensible approach in her work, but instead placed the bonds of people in their social environment in the foreground of the "original development of the self".

Starting in 1971, Selvini Palazzoli developed a systemic therapy together with Luigi Boscolo , Gianfranco Cecchin and Giuliana Prata based on her examination of Bateson's cybernetics and Watzlawick's communication theory , which became known as the Milanese model after the publication of Paradox and Counter-Paradox . After the dissolution of their first team in 1980, Selvini Palazzoli and Giuliana Prata founded a new institute in 1982 under the name Nuovo Centro per lo Studio della Famiglia .

Mara Selvini Palazzoli lived in Milan and had been married to the cardiologist Aldo Selvini since 1947 , with whom she had three children.

Works

  • Mara Selvini-Palazzoli, L'anoressia mental. Feltrinelli, Milan 1963. (English translation: Self-Starvation. From the Intrapsychic to the Transpersonal Approach to Anorexia Nervosa . Aronson, New York 1978. German translation: Anorexia. From the treatment of individuals to family therapy . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, 8 . Ed., ISBN 3-608-95095-8 )
  • Mara Selvini-Palazzoli (author), Luigi Boscolo (author), Gianfranco Cecchin (author), Giuliana Prata (author), Paradoxon und Gegenparadoxon , Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-608-95375-2 .
  • Mara Selvini-Palazzoli (author), Luigi Boscolo (author), Gianfranco Cecchin (author), Giuliana Prata (author), hypothesizing, circularity, neutrality. Three guidelines for the chairman of the meeting , 1981.
  • Mara Selvini-Palazzoli, et al. Behind the scenes of the organization , (6th edition) Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3608950141 and ISBN 978-3608950144
  • Mara Selvini-Palazzoli (author), Stefano Cirillo (author), Matteo Selvini (author), Anna M. Sorrentino (author), The psychotic games in the family , 2nd edition, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-91806- X .
  • Mara Selvini-Palazzoli (author), Stefano Cirillo (author), Matteo Selvini (author), Anna M. Sorrentino (author), anorexia and bulimia. New Family Therapy Perspectives , Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-91981-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Satuila Stierlin: I was burning with curiosity! Family stories of important family therapists. Carl Auer Systems, Heidelberg 2001. ISBN 3-89670-209-2 ; Pages 11-38
personal data
SURNAME Selvini Palazzoli, Mara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1999
Place of death Milan , Italy