Tracking Talk in Therapy: Twelve Useful Maps
Wendel A. Ray & Matthew F. Borer
According to Don Jackson and Virginia Satir, systemic family therapy is “predicated on the necessity for viewing the symptoms of the identified patient or patients within the total family interaction, with the explicit theoretical belief that there is a relationship between the symptom of the identified patient and the total family interaction. The extent to which the therapist “believes” in family therapy will determine his emphasis on techniques that convey this orientation to the patient, (1961, p. 30). Jay Haley (1974), and others such as Keeney and Ross (1985) echo this essential point saying “systemic family therapy is a perspective that emphasizes treating the patterns that connect the problem behavior of one person with the behavior of other people” (p. 3).
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