Posts Tagged ‘Steve de Shazer’

THE LATE INSOO KIM BERG WAS A DOLPHINTHINKER’S DOLPHIN. ABOVE ALL, SHE WANTED REAL SOLUTIONS FOR HER THERAPY CLIENTS, AND SHE WANTED THEM NOW

The therapist was a tiny woman with dark, closely cropped hair, magnetic eyes and a ready, inviting smile. Her name was Insoo Kim Berg. She was born in Korea, came to the U.S. in 1957 to study and stayed.
The person closest to her was her husband, a jazz-musician-turned-psychotherapist named Steve de Shazer. She persuaded [...]

JARRING LOOSE THE LEAP!  OFTEN
HAS A LOT IN COMMON WITH POPPING “THE MIRACLE QUESTION”

No one remembered exactly when it happened, or how. This in itself was a bit strange since there were almost surely several witnesses in that psychological therapy practice office in Milwaukee that day—whichever day it was—in the 1980s. And these were not just ordinary lookers-on. They were trained observers: licensed mental health professionals. They were [...]