Beyond Family Therapy

Anderson, Harlene; Goolishian, Harold A.; Winderman, Lee

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“…This position has been supported recently by Harlene Anderson and Harry Goolishian (2) in their discussion of the problem-oriented system. Goolishian (personal communication, 1985) also makes a case against the prevailing emphasis on dividing therapy into individual, couple or family treatment.…”

Section: The Problem Creates the Systemmentioning

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Beyond power and control: Toward a "second order" family systems therapy.

Hoffman¹

1985

Family Systems Medicine

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Section: The Problem Creates the Systemmentioning

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Beyond power and control: Toward a "second order" family systems therapy.

Hoffman¹

1985

Family Systems Medicine

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“…Therapist positioning refers to the epistemological maps or personal constructs through which the therapist relates to and organizes the client's data (Anderson, Goolishian, Pulliam, & Winderman, 1986; Watzlawick, Weakland, & Fisch, 1974). The therapist's position must include all relevant persons in the problem system and must not violate anyone's perspective.…”

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“…Goolishian and Anderson and their colleagues at the Galveston Family Institute (Anderson & Goolishian, 1988; Anderson, Goolishian, Pulliam, & Winderman, 1986; Anderson, Goolishian, & Winderman, 1986; Goolishian & Anderson, 1987; Hargens, 1987; Loos & Epstein, 1989) have also been involved in experimenting with new ways of describing clinical work with families that attempts to avoid pejorative and instrumental language. Borrowing heavily from hermeneutic philosophers, they emphasize the role of conversation and dialogue in the clinical domain.…”

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Some irreverent thoughts on the limits of family therapy: Toward a language-based explanation of human systems.

Epstein¹,

Loos²

1989

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…Alternative principles have been proposed (cf. Anderson et al, 1986; Anderson et al, 1986; Dell, 1982 a , b ; Dell & Goolishian, 1981; Hoffman, 1981, 1985; Mendez et al, 1987; Selvini-Palazzoli et al, 1978; Schwartzman, 1984).…”

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“…Some family therapists (Anderson et al, 1986; Anderson et al, 1986; Hoffman, 1985) are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the “normal science” of family therapy. There is a growing sensibility in the therapy field of the need for alternatives to current social thinking as the basis for understanding and practicing therapy.…”

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Language systems and therapy: An evolving idea.

Goolishian¹,

Anderson²

1987

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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of theory, clinical intuition was relied on for direction in this totally unchartered area. However, it was probably the absence of theory that permitted the many brilliant and creative variations in practice that marked the early days of family therapy. The Promises of Early Systems TheoryThe systems thinking that we now know as family therapy became energized after Bateson and his colleagues (Bateson et al., 1956) developed the concept of the double bind. The double bind, and the related assumption of symptom functionality, led to the invention of the concept of family homeostasis (Jackson, 1957). These concepts were a major breakthrough in psychotherapeutic theory. The family could now be described as a system that had characteristics and organizing principles that were independent of the psychic structures of the individuals comprising the family.These early theories represented a unique contribution toward the application of cybernetic, or control systems, theory in the study of human communication and interaction. The work of Talcott Parsons (1951) in applying cybernetic theory to social systems was not yet well known in the family field. Initially, the concepts focused on dyadic interaction. This quickly gave way to multiperson, triangular interactions following the publication of Weakland's (1960) paper on threeparty interaction.As a result of this early work, problem behaviors or symptoms were conceptualized as serving a function: conserving stability or family homeostasis. The symptom was described as feedback in a cybernetic loop of mutual causality and circularity. The symptom, as feedback into the family, was required by the family in order to preserve the family's equilibrium. In this sense the symptom served a stability function. Symptoms were now defined in terms of what people were doing in the context of ongoing human relationships. This theoretical position moved the field of psychotherapy well beyond the limits of individual psy- 529This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.

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Beyond Family Therapy

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Beyond power and control: Toward a "second order" family systems therapy.

Beyond power and control: Toward a "second order" family systems therapy.

Some irreverent thoughts on the limits of family therapy: Toward a language-based explanation of human systems.

Language systems and therapy: An evolving idea.

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