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Pescando Barracudas: Pragmática de la Terapia Sistémica Breve

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"Barracudas" son, metafóricamente hablando, las familias difíciles, resistentes, que llegan a la consulta con un historial de cinco o más años de fallidos intentos terapéuticos. En los términos más humorísticos del autor, son "las familias asesinas que devoran a sus terapeutas. Se las puede detectar por la sonrisa que asoma a sus labios y el timbre de regocijo que resuena en su voz cuando describen su problema crónica y enumeran a los terapeutas que han devorado". El pescador necesita maestría para capturar al pez y prudencia para evitar sus dentelladas; análogas cualidades se requieren en el terapeuta, que debe comprender a estas familias y lograr que cambien y, al mismo tiempo, sortear los peligros que supone trabajar con ellas. Basándose en su larga práctica de la terapia sistémica breve de familias, Joel S. Bergman describe gran número de intervenciones estratégicas paradójicas, humorísticas, impactantes e eficaces.

184 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1985

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October 8, 2012
One of the most easy-to-read books for working with families and couples whose members get "stucked" at some point in life because of their relationships.
In this manual, the autor brings all his experience and presents a series of techinques for working with barracuda, those difficult people who seem to defeat mental health professionals.
However, it has some points that I think that are dated or may be questionable. I am talking about the cultural aspects.
The families treated, the definition of goals and, therefore, the evaluation of change, it all seems to be based in a traditional middle-class model of what a family is supposed to be. Of course this could be explained in terms of the date when the book was written, but the reality here is that cultural, sexual and social diversity is something that Bergman almost never addresses.
Maybe he is just describing the type of families that in fact came to him to seek help, but it's a surprise to me that most of those people fit-in an heterosexual middle class family model.
There are no gay children nor parents, or grandparents in charge of their grandchildren as if they were their parents, single moms, etc.
In any case, it remains as a classic manual for starters in the field of intervention with families and a book to check for well-trained practicioners.
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December 2, 2021
Si bien no me veo con los conocimientos y capacidades para llevar a cabo alguna de las técnicas que se proponen aquí, me ha resultado un libro muy enriquecedor sobre el hecho de cómo el terapeuta puede llegar a vivir o no una sesión y sobre cómo aprovechar el rol para seguir creciendo. Recomiendo mucho este libro.
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January 11, 2026
Muy buen libro! Mega sale de lo convencional en terapia y creo que es divino para principiantes.
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