Narcissistic, borderline, toxic: therapy speak has left the consulting room. Julien Besse shows how these labels close the debate and relieve us of our own part.

From Heidegger to Palo Alto, silence is not an absence but a message. Defensive, strategic, reflective or shared: its forms, its functions and its risks.

Humour in therapy is not a gimmick but a clinical skill: it loosens the loops, reframes without wounding and reopens the field of possibilities. With its ethical safeguards and a concrete toolbox.

First order, second order, paradigmatic revolution: three logical levels of change, and why intensifying old recipes stops working once the context has shifted.