« Change isn’t becoming someone else, it’s knowing who we are, and accepting it”, by modulating certain facets of our personality regardless to the context in which we evolve and via a path suited to our possibilities. »

Jacques Salomé

« Bad habits of the mind can’t be totally suppressed, but it is possible to add new habits and get them to become irresistible. People can’t be changed radically, but you can just point at a new path and then help them with the will to walk it. »

Gounelle, L.(2010), Les Dieux voyagent toujours incognito, p.213

Systemic psychotherapy considers that a person suffering, whatever his/her problems, is part of a complex interpersonal system. The total of the system represents way more than the simple sum of the individuals in the system.

The system is organized with its own rules and its own codes of communication. Sometimes the interactions become problematic and the visible symptoms are the expression of a more global dysfunction. The person who expresses the symptom is not responsible, it is the whole system (family, social environments, professional context) which is disturbed and suffering.
The goal is to identify the problem and cure the interactions. By giving a meaning to the dysfunctional behaviors and by identifying their function, a new balance can be created were these behaviors become useless.

In systemic, we do not cure the person but his way of being in relationship with its context, of perceiving its environment. Relational games are analyzed to suggest other less demanding and more balancing.