Ben zwi Furman

• MD
• Manager at Helsinki Brief therapy institute

Shame can be felt after causing harm and after being harmed by wrongdoing. Failure to address shame can increase the possibility of the victim-offender overlap, making victims more likely to offend and offenders more likely to be victimized. An online, individually applied, restorative apology process could help prevent the victim-offender overlap...

We suggest that there are many advantages in thoroughly exploring the causal explanations given by clients or members of their social network to account for their problems. Specific interviewing techniques are presented to uncover clients' causal explanations or their impressions about the causal explanations of others. Various advantages of explor...

In this paper the authors suggest that instead of holding the view that the sequence of therapy follows the path of first interviewing and gathering data, then understanding and finally intervening on the basis of what is thought to be the cause of the problem, we could benefit from recognizing that the reverse view is equally plausible. According...

In our search for alternative ways of talking about problems we have been drawn to the traditions of family and brief therapy. Over the years we have gradually found a number of useful ideas for conducting therapeutic conversations and consultations which we will refer to in this book as "solution talk." This way of working is characterized both by...

We suggest that there are many advantages in thoroughly exploring the causal explanations given by clients or members of their social network to account for their problems. Specific interviewing techniques are presented to uncover clients' causal explanations or their impressions about the causal explanations of others. Various advantages of explor...

Explores adverse effects of common psychological attributions through the frame of reference of attribution theory, which offers a way of approaching the various explanations or causal attributions that are characteristic of the various psychotherapeutic theories while maintaining a neutral position. Focus is on patients, family members, and clinic...

The use of humour in therapy tends to create a context for treatment where new ideas and alternative perspectives may emerge. Humour can be promoted through the use of anecdotes and jokes, humorous comments, humorous deframing and reframing, and humorous fantasies and task assignments. It is argued that humour is not an inborn talent that some peop...

This article is a summary of the methods of a family-oriented rehabilitative project at Espoo Mental Health Center for young patients who have been discharged from a psychiatric hospital where they have been treated for their first psychotic episode. The article discribes the first application of the so-called psycho-educational approach to this po...

I9 In this case, the therapist and team seek to harness the client's own explanation of his problem. A young man with a history of heavy alcohol usage had aview that his problemwas caused by his parents. Rather than seek to clallenge this explanation direct$, the therapist seeks to use the eryIanation as the starting point for alternateways of thin...