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The behavioral proposals therapy model is a relational,
systemic, and pragmatic approach to psychotherapy.
It is centered on the interpersonal communication
process and aims at modifying disfuncional
relational dispositions both in families (or other natural
groups) and in individuais.
Persons are conceptualized as hierarchical organizations
of, at least, four sub-systems with four specific
interfaces: (1) organism - environment, (2) subject
- object, (3) individual - society, and (4) personal
spirit - culture. It is argued that most psychotherapeutical
models are reducionistic because they center
only in one such interfaces.
Any psychotherapeutical process is mediated by the
communication process. The touchstone of the present
model is to consider only the pragmatic aspect
of human communication on the basis that it is much
more determinative of what goes on between two (or
more) persons than the semantic or the sintaxic
aspects. It is assumed that interpersonal interaction is
basicaily a chain of behavioral proposals in wich one
person is allaways telling the other how he or she
should behave and vice versa.
The elementíuy pragmatic model of interacting subjects
(De Giacomo & Silvestri, 1981) is developed in
terms of, and illustrated with, both individual and
famiiy therapy instances. Some new directions are discussed,
specifically, a new relational test - KALTEST
- and simulation essays made by the author and collaborators.
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Análise Psicológica, 7 (1/2/3), 151-177
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Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada