ABSTRACT
Practice comes first, says Tom Andersen. It is not easy to be a hierarchically oriented psychiatrist if one wants to be part of the reflecting team, he believes. Speaking less and listening more became an important crossroad in his practice. The authors met for a few hours one evening to speak about the important crossroads in Tom’s working life. The ultimate confrontation with ‘either-or’ came during the writing of a book about Aadel Bulow-Hansen’s physiotherapy. Gudrun Ovreberg and the author began to film her, and it became his job to describe everything that happened on the film, all the movements, all the sounds, and all the words—everything. When Harry Goolishian came to Northern Norway for the first time in June 1985, the authors talked about the problem-created system—that is, the system is shaped in the conversation around a theme. So the therapist belonged to another system—he belonged to those who talked about the difficulties.
