ABSTRACT
Understandably, I (SdS) have often been asked about my interest in and frequent citation of Wittgenstein’s work in both my writing and my training seminars in solution-focused therapy. Wittgenstein saw the philosophical problems that concerned him as involving traps or knots that are inherent within language. Of course, we must use language to battle the bewitchment of these traps and knots. Since SFBT and most other therapies take a conversational form-therapy, like philosophy, is done within language-therapists and clients are subject to falling into the same and similar traps, and to getting all tied up in the same kinds of knots. Obviously, language is the primary tool of clients and therapists for doing therapy, and language must be used to resolve muddles and to get us out of the traps and knots inherent in language.
