5 Minute Therapy Tips - Episode 16: Metaphor - Salvador Minuchin

We started a sequence on the use of metaphor. Today I’m going to show you two video clips of the great innovator, one of the founders of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin.

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Minuchin Archives - A Violent Father:

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with Jeff Zeig, PhD

Presented by:
The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

Sponsored by:
Evolution of Psychotherapy 2017
December 13-17, 2017

Images:
Andreas Steiner

[cherihausmann]

This type of approach seems very confrontational.

[DavidGrnx]

I have a father who is in the very same position as the man in the clip and so are my family. Is it possible to cure a person stubbornness to accept the fact that he is causing the family to be distant from him rather than the other way around? Most importantly, my father is a very stubborn man. Is there a way to make him change his stubborn mindset and make him consider other people's opinion?

[larneyful]

This guy seems like he has a rage issue and the kids are scared. I wonder if this therapist would use the same approach knowing what we now know about domestic violence.I felt like the therapist was putting blame on the family. It does not feel right to me at all.