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Article

Before Saying “Hello”: A Commentary on Novellino

Pages 296-302
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article, written from the perspective of an organizational consultant, comments on Novellino's (2011) article about the first interview in psychotherapy. The author's aim is to highlight the complexity created by the organizational context, which is present even prior to the first interview. An organizational consultant is entangled in a variety of steps, thoughts, and reflections that take place before seeing the organizational client for the first time. Some main areas of complexity are explored, and a case vignette is presented.

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Servaas van Beekum

Servaas van Beekum, drs, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (education, counseling, organizations), is a social scientist with a background in analytic, humanistic, and systemic modalities. He is a registered psychotherapist (Pacfa reg) and a psychodynamic consultant to organizations. Servaas is a past president of EATA and the ITAA and co-founder of Group Relations Nederland (1992) and Group Relations Australia (2005), associations that study unconscious group process in organizations. He is globally active as a speaker and consultant while living in Sydney and directing the consulting training arm of the Australian Centre for Integrative Studies (ACIS) (www.acissydney.com.au). Servaas can be reached at .