Karl Tomm
Biographic Data
| ID | 4440039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl Tomm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomm |
| SIGNATURE | TOMM K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3502-9076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Interventive Interviewing Revisited: An Updated Framework
Interventive interviewing is a methodology that guides professionals in generating helpful questions for clients. It is grounded in systemic and social constructionist ways of thinking and has been useful in both clinical and organizational settings. The first part of this paper reviews the original work on this approach in systemic therapy and some adjustments that were made when it was applied in organizational consulting and coaching. The seco…
Obituary: Honoring and remembering—Dr. Evan Imber‐Black (May 19, 1944–May 29, 2024)
Dr. Evan Imber-Black (née Imber Coppersmith) was a brilliant and incisive thinker, professor, therapist, and word capturer who wrote, edited, and co-authored six books and over 75 book chapters, reviews, and articles, including ones for the popular press. She began teaching in 1977 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There, she created transformative doctoral and master's degree programs in family therapy and was deeply committed to ment…
Interviewing the Internalized Other and the Distributed Self
A unique psychotherapeutic method of Internalized Other Interviewing (IOI) has emerged over the last 35 years. It is based on a social constructionist and bringforthist perspective in which a person as a self‐aware individual is seen to arise through a rich history of interaction with other human beings. If a therapist can apply this understanding and conceive of the self as constituted by an internalized community in one's memory, it becomes coh…
Bringing Forth Generativities Within Relational Disquiet: An Interview With Karl Tomm
From August 16th to 20th of 2023, the Calgary Family Therapy Centre (CFTC) 50th Anniversary and Conference: Bringing Forth Generativities Within Relational Disquiet was held in Calgary, Canada. The theme of the conference was relational disquiet, a notion introduced at the CFTC to raise awareness that something is experienced as amiss, uneasy, restless, or a sense of unfairness when something is experienced as not right during the therapeutic pro…
Interventive Interviewing: Part III. Intending to Ask Lineal, Circular, Strategic, or Reflexive Questions?
Every question asked by a therapist may be seen to embody some intent and to arise from certain assumptions. Many questions are intended to orient the therapist to the client's situation and experiences; others are asked primarily to provoke therapeutic change. Some questions are based on lineal assumptions about the phenomena being addressed; others are based on circular assumptions. The differences among these questions are not trivial. They te…
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Interventive Interviewing: Part III. Intending to Ask Lineal, Circular, Strategic, or Reflexive Questions?
Every question asked by a therapist may be seen to embody some intent and to arise from certain assumptions. Many questions are intended to orient the therapist to the client's situation and experiences; others are asked primarily to provoke therapeutic change. Some questions are based on lineal assumptions about the phenomena being addressed; others are based on circular assumptions. The differences among these questions are not trivial. They te…
Obituary: Honoring and remembering—Dr. Evan Imber‐Black (May 19, 1944–May 29, 2024)
Dr. Evan Imber-Black (née Imber Coppersmith) was a brilliant and incisive thinker, professor, therapist, and word capturer who wrote, edited, and co-authored six books and over 75 book chapters, reviews, and articles, including ones for the popular press. She began teaching in 1977 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There, she created transformative doctoral and master's degree programs in family therapy and was deeply committed to ment…
Interviewing the Internalized Other and the Distributed Self
A unique psychotherapeutic method of Internalized Other Interviewing (IOI) has emerged over the last 35 years. It is based on a social constructionist and bringforthist perspective in which a person as a self‐aware individual is seen to arise through a rich history of interaction with other human beings. If a therapist can apply this understanding and conceive of the self as constituted by an internalized community in one's memory, it becomes coh…
Bringing Forth Generativities Within Relational Disquiet: An Interview With Karl Tomm
From August 16th to 20th of 2023, the Calgary Family Therapy Centre (CFTC) 50th Anniversary and Conference: Bringing Forth Generativities Within Relational Disquiet was held in Calgary, Canada. The theme of the conference was relational disquiet, a notion introduced at the CFTC to raise awareness that something is experienced as amiss, uneasy, restless, or a sense of unfairness when something is experienced as not right during the therapeutic pro…
Interventive Interviewing Revisited: An Updated Framework
Interventive interviewing is a methodology that guides professionals in generating helpful questions for clients. It is grounded in systemic and social constructionist ways of thinking and has been useful in both clinical and organizational settings. The first part of this paper reviews the original work on this approach in systemic therapy and some adjustments that were made when it was applied in organizational consulting and coaching. The seco…
Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Interview (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works)