Being Illogical To Be More Logical:
The Use Of Non-Ordinary Logic As A Vehicle Of Therapeutic Change In Advanced Brief Strategic Therapy
Giorgio Nardone and Claudette Portelli
Abstract: The aim of this article is to put forward the seemingly strange logic of the practical indications that elicit therapeutic change in advanced brief strategic therapy. Therapeutic change can not rely on a strike of luck but should be systematically directed towards a predetermined goal established together with the patient. The twenty-year-clinical-experimental experience of the Centro di Terapia Strategica of Arezzo (CTS) has led to important discoveries for the treatment of various disorders, which were often regarded as irrational, bizarre, illogical and thus irresolvable. This on-going research has led to deduce that resolution of these disorders could only be reached if therapists manage to understand and exploit the non-ordinary, dysfunctional self-deceptive logic that underlies and maintains the great majority of human sufferings.
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