La thérapie brève de Palo Alto : l'approche interactionnelle des situations dépressives

This article sets out to answer the following question: how does the brief therapy model (developed by researchers at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto USA and their European disciples) see and treat one of the most common complaints in psychiatry, that of the depressed patient ? The theoretical premises (the non-separation of the observer and the observed, the subject and its environment) induce an inter-active concept of the nature of the problem and change. At the clinical level the two aspects, constructivist and systemic, become entangled to provide the context for the process of attempted solutions (nature of the problem) and for the paradoxical approach (nature of the change)