A reframe by any other name: on the process of refraining in strategic, Milan and analytic therapy

Abstract

This paper explores the process of reframing within strategic, Milan and analytic therapy. There are two purposes in exploring the different frameworks – the first is to clarify the differences in each framework; the second is to examine reframing as a generic process in therapy. In the course of the discussion, some common themes emerge. These include the question of the client's experience of therapy, the tendency to depersonalize the process of reframing, and the issue of truth in relation to reframing. Throughout the paper, there is an attempt to avoid the tendency in family therapy to treat difference competitively. Copyright © 1992, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved