Among the pathologies of the mind and behavior, OCD, OCD, is among the most serious and disabling. The patient's life progressively loses its natural rhythm and is marked by the results induced by the compulsion. Resistant to drug therapies and traditional psychotherapies, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a deadly trap that [...]
There are probably very few parents who have never faced big or small problems with their children, at any age. Who has never had to deal with the difficulties of the first months of a newborn's life, with an introverted or too lively child, with a problematic teenager? In the last few years […]
Purpose - The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of Bateson and colleagues' double bind theory, which has been a breakthrough in the history of psychiatry and human behavior because it freed us from the prison of ordinary logic. Design / methodology / approach - The use of non-ordinary logic, in understanding and in solving seemingly [...]
Hypnosis is not, as myths and prejudices want, a state of loss of consciousness, but on the contrary a natural condition that alternates and integrates with wakefulness; we often go through states of suggestion or trance that help us better manage the surrounding reality. Furthermore, the hypnotic trance is not induced with [...]
The art of change was published in 1988, the text with which Giorgio Nardone introduced that twenty-year activity whose results and successes are collected and explained in this volume. Twenty years during which, through an increasingly conscious therapeutic use of paradox, belief and contradiction - that is, of non-ordinary logics - Nardone has arrived [...]
Binge eating and throwing up, cutting oneself with a razor blade or getting burned with a cigarette, abusing alcohol and drugs: often behind these behaviors, which are only apparently self-destructive, there is the trap of compulsion, which from a sedative expedient and an outlet for psychic suffering is transformed into unstoppable pleasure. It is from here that it is possible to demonstrate how bulimia [...]