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Dr. Carlos E. Sluzki is a Professor at George Mason University with joint appointments at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and the School of Public Policy.
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Item Deception and fear in politically oppressive contexts: its trickle-down effect on families(2005) Sluzki, Carlos E.The mystified reality, restricted options and inherent risks of living in countries under a repressive political regime translate into survival tactics that reduce the reliance on social support, into semantic and cognitive restrictions and alternative codes, and into silences that translate into symptoms. While this is the case for the average citizen, it is even more pronounced in individuals and families directly touched by the repressive apparatus. These processes are discussed and two clinical examples are provided to illustrate them.Item Families, networks, and other strange shapes(1985) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item How to stake a territory in the field of family therapy in three easy lessons(1983) Sluzki, Carlos E.Three strategies to claim a piece of territory in the increasingly populated field of Family therapy are spelled out and exemplified for easy use by readers.Item Language, practices, and record-keeping: a reflective consultation and some institutional changes that resulted from it(London: Karnak Books, 2000, 2000) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item Migration and family conflict(1979) Sluzki, Carlos E.The stages of the process of migration are described, with the implications of each for family conflict and appropriate therapeutic intervention.Item Migration and the disruption of the social network(New York: Guildford Press, 1998) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item On violence: a creed for therapists(2000) Sluzki, Carlos E.; Greaser, DanielThis article presents the conclusions of a group that met as part of the 1999 IFTA Congress in Akron, Ohio. The group explored the implications and responsibilities of enhancing our awareness about both societal and interpersonal violence in our daily personal and professional lives. In its report, ethical parameters in our daily praxis were proposed: Let us maintain a reflexive and militantly non-violent stance in our daily life. Let us enhance our voice toward non-oppressive, non-violent, non-sexist, non-classist, non-racist, culturally-sensitive practices in our homes, in our working environment, in the organizations of which we are a part, and in our communities. Let us sensitize ourselves to our complex personal social network and treat it as the valuable resource it is. At the same time as we address the structural and cultural roots of violence, let us understand acts of violence as multi-level, complex crisis, in order to help re-story those events so as to empower the victims and to re-socialize the perpetrators. In sum, in the face of violence of any kind, not only we should refuse to become perpetrators, but we cannot be bystanders: it makes us, in fact, victimizers.Item Pathway from conflict to reconciliation, the: coexistence as an evolutionary process(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item Patient-provider-translator triad, the: a note for providers(1978) Sluzki, Carlos E.The patient-provider-translator triad constitutes a frequent configuration in the provision of health care in cross cultural settings. Specific recommendations are offered in order to maximize the provider-translator collaboration, while insuring a sound patient-provider relationship.Item Patients, clients, consumers: the politics of words(2000) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item Reclaiming words, reclaiming worlds(1994) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item Rekindling the experience of freedom: from the collective to the personal... and back(1997) Sluzki, Carlos E.On June 1984, in Santa Fe, capital of the province of the same name, in Argentina, I delivered a keynote presentation at the First Annual Congress of the Argentine Federation of Systemic Associations. This family therapy Congress coincided with a major transitional period in that country: it took place six months after the first civilian, democratically elected, president in Argentina assumed office, following eight years of ruthless military rule. Fully aware of the momentous socio political junction the reawakening of democratic institutions and of individual awareness of freedom, after the stifling experience of living under a repressive military regime for many years I chose, instead of delivering an address on one or another conceptual issue in the field of family therapy, to present and discuss a videotape of an interview that I had conducted in Argentina, two years before, with a family in which two central members had been "disappeared", i.e., abducted by military commandos and presumably tortured and killed. This paper describes and comments on that experience.Item Short term heaven, long term limbo: a visit to a UNHCR refugee camp in Rwanda(2006) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item Small steps and big leaps in an era of cultural transition: a crisis in a traditional Kosovar Albanian family(2003) Sluzki, Carlos E.; Agani, Ferid N.This ethnographic vignette details the way a difficult crisis in an extended Kosovar family was managed by its own members within the mandates of that overtly patriarchal culture while creating important avenues for change. The cultural and historic context for these events is provided, and the nuances of this solution-oriented, culturally congruent, "natural" (i.e., not in a therapeutic context) process are discussed.Item Social network and the elderly: conceptual and clinical issues, and a family consultation(2000) Sluzki, Carlos E.After a general Introduction to the construct "social networks," this article discusses the progressive transformation of the personal social network--family, friends and acquaintances, work and leisure relationships, et cetera--as individuals reach an advanced age. This is followed by a summary and discussion (from a social-constructionist perspective) of a clinical consultation, with an emphasis on the reciprocal influence between individual and social network.Item Strange attractors and the transformation of narratives in therapy(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item Toward a model of family and political victimization: implications for treatment and recovery(1993) Sluzki, Carlos E.Item Transformations: a blueprint for narrative changes in therapy(1992) Sluzki, Carlos E.Problematic/symptomatic behaviors are embedded, retained and maintained in collective stories. Therapy is the transformative process by which patients/families and therapists co-generate qualitative changes in those stories. An emphasis on narratives allows to further specify--at the more "micro" level of the exchanges that take place throughout the consultation--how those transformations unfold. To that specification is devote the core of the essay, which closes with a discussion of some clinical, research and, especially, research potentials of this systematization.