Esther Perel on therapy, letting go of certainty

Esther Perel tells us about her mentor Salvador Minuchin and the way he shaped her entire perspective on what therapy is. She studied with him for 4 years in his practice in New York. Perel shows us an interview with Salvador Minuchin, 93 years old, in which he tells the audience that therapy is a polemic disguised as dialogue. People who come to therapy are wrong. They are wrong because they are certain, and certainty is the enemy of change.
Salvador Minuchin was a world-famous family therapist who developed the structural family therapy. He was considered the ‘Freud of systemic therapy'. He passed away in 2017. To learn more about Minuchin you can visit the Minuchin Archives:www.psychother...
“My entire perspective of what therapy is, how to observe people and understand problems has been influenced by Minuchin.”
“Certainty is the enemy of change.”
Interviewer: Janine Abbring
This clip is an edited segment from the renowned Dutch 3-hour interview program VPRO Zomergasten (Summer Residents) and part of a playlist that contains an edited version of the interview, without the movie clips, which we cannot show online due to copyrights: • Esther Perel Interview...
VPRO Zomergasten is a staple interview program in the Netherlands, produced by the Dutch public broadcasting station VPRO. Each summer 6 renowned guests are invited to compose their ideal evening of television, filling up an entire Sunday evening, consisting of a 3-hour live in-depth studio interview prompted by their selection of cinema and television clips or any other form of moving images, which run like a thread through the entire interview.
Esther Perel was a guest in the summer of 2018. She selected clips from the following movies, television history, documentary films and interviews: I, Tonya; Salvador Minuchin; My Architect; Before Midnight; The {The And}; Bill Clinton; Elisabeth Badinter; Shoah; Mr. Gaga; A Walk on the Moon; Away from Her; Newness; Call Me by Your Name.