Description and History of Systemic Therapy

The history of systemic therapy is important because many psychologists use it in individual, couple, and family therapy, as well as in research. One must know its history in order to understand how it works and the relevance of its concepts. The most innovative part of systemic therapy is the understanding of the mind as something relational. Something representing a difference regarding traditional currents that understood the origin and treatment of illness as something exclusively individual. In turn, this change entailed the transfer of the focus of intervention from the individual or the intrapsychic character of the disease to the…