Some Thoughts on Language Use in Therapy

Steve-De-Shazer

Abstract

We intend to reproduce key papers from the development of the SF approach. Many of these are now hard to find, even if one knows where to look. We hope that reviewing and reading this work will help to cement the idea that SF is a highly distinctive approach with an internal logic which is both everyday and yet is hard to pin down. This issue we start with a piece by Steve de Shazer from 1997, where he makes a clear call for being wary of muddles in language, and shows how SF can help dismantles these muddles.

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