Citation

Raffin C. Fam. Process 1988; 27(4): 485-499.

Affiliation

Center of Systemic Family Therapy and Research, Milan, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Family Process Institute, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3234532

Abstract

A family therapist using the "falsificationist epistemology" can, during the first session, test the hypotheses formulated on the telephone intake chart and also gather further information to reexamine and redefine these hypotheses. We shall examine a case treated by Dr. G. Prata, analyzing the most important phases of the first session, and stressing what methodological and tactical choices were designed to test the leading hypothesis of the "game" played by this family.

Language: en