ABSTRACT
The goals of therapy reflect the therapist's experiences, as well as the biases and the theories that guide him. After having made a diagnosis and having begun therapy, many therapists, especially those with medical training, tend to look for the underlying causes—the "real" causes—of the pathology. In the early 1970s, the original Milan team used to draw a clear distinction between family therapy and individual therapy, and chose to do family therapy with all clients referred. At the end of the 1980s, the authors still working mainly with families and couples, began to develop a deeper interest in individual therapy. They explores whether individual systemic therapy would have different effects, compared to family or couple therapy, on the symptomatic client. Among the circumstances that stimulated author's interest in individual systemic therapy, one came from the ever-increasing frequency with which most of their trainees brought their individual therapy cases to us for supervision.
