Published: October 2024

(reprinted from print issue 18, 2010)

Keywords:
Dimitris Basoglou, Sylvia Arapidou, Theofanis Tziastas, Odyssey, Dialogue, School, Exclusion, Inclusion, Delinquent Behaviour, School Intervention, Psychotherapy, Teachers, Parents, Students, Counselling, Collaborative Discussion, Network Discussion.

Dimitris Basoglou

Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapist, Trainer & Supervisor, Institute of Systemic Thinking and Psychotherapy, Thessaloniki. dbasoglou@yahoo.gr

Sylvia Arapidou

Psychologist (M.A), Systemic Psychotherapist, collaborator of The Institute of Systemic Thinking and Psychotherapy, artist photographer. sylviaarapidou@hotmail.com

Theofanis Tziastas

Biologist, Teacher, Special Educator. theotzi@gmail.com

Abstract

Metalogos Ed. Comment: This text is republished from the printed issue 18 (2010) of Metalogos (in which “Schools” was its central theme).

The text style and writers' credentials in the text are preserved as they were at the time.

“This article was written on the occasion of the story of a child, Odysseus, to describe the shared experience we had as his psychologist-psychotherapist, the psychologist-counsellor who was called to his school and the special pedagogue of the integration class he attended. Our purpose and the primary motivation for recording this experience is an effort to describe our concerns, our thoughts and the difficulties we encountered, as well as the different ways we were constantly exploring together to coordinate with each other and find a common line while maintaining each one's distinct position. In the following text, we have chosen to try to preserve the same style of dialogue that we had initiated in our collaboration”.