ABSTRACT

This chapter presents useful tips for tackling the semantics. A client will need to develop new habits if he or she wants to get rid of his or her problems and symptoms. Problematic habits will have to make way for acceptable ones. When constructing these new habits, other emotions and feelings, other patterns of behavior will emerge, as will other meanings and views. From a systemic perspective, habits are rules of the system. Our relatives (or our colleagues, our team mates, our class mates, according to which system we consider) interact with our habits. Habits are repetitive interactional behavior patterns. The more a hypothesis appears as useful and respectful for all members of the client's system, the better the strategies that follow from it will be accepted. The chapter presents a few case examples that explore the therapeutic relationship.