The Gift of Truth

Maurizio Andolfi shares the wisdom he has gained over fifty years of personal and professional life experiences, and chronicles his learning from the giants of family therapy.
This book highlights the deeply human experience of the healing process which is only possible when therapists are able to get rid of their professional mask in order to attune to the suffering brought to therapy by individuals and troubled families.
The therapeutic project is the search for authenticity and mutual understanding, which becomes a reciprocal Gift of Truth when the inner self of the therapist encounters the self of the other, breaking the fences of social and conventional roles.
Relational questioning, attentive listening, body language and movement are outlined as the main tools in therapy and the vehicle for knowledge and transformation in families. It describes the learning process for therapists to develop critical thinking skills and discover creativity and how to utilise their personal and professional resources fully in therapy. To reach this goal the acquisition of an inner supervisor enables a profound inner dialogue and a space for reflection that can help to unblock impasses and guide therapists in difficult therapeutic situations.

Maurizio Andolfi
M.D., Child Psychiatrist, Professor University “La Sapienza”, Rome and Master Family Therapist is the Director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia of Rome, Editor of the Italian Journal Terapia Familiare and President of the Silvano Andolfi Foundation.
He is a founder member of EFTA and was awarded for his special contribution in family therapy by AAMFT in 1999 and by the Australian Association of family therapy in 2021 and got a Life Achievement Award from AFTA in 2016. He is an Honorary Member of the Asian Family Therapy Association and the Andolfi Family Centre has been opened in his honour in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. He has been lecturing all over the world, writing many books in several languages, the latest are Teen Voices and
Intergenerational Couple therapy (co-author Anna Mascellani)
and Multigenerational Family Therapy.