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Jessee, Edgar H.; L’Abate, Luciano

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00042.x

Family Process

1981

DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00042.x

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Edgar H. Jessee

Luciano L’Abate

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Paradox as Epistemological Jump

Rosenbaum

1982

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Recent articles on paradoxical interventions tend to view them as something given by a therapist to a patient, thus unintentionally adopting a unidirectional view of causality and an outmoded epistemology. It is postulated that change takes place in the context of a patient-therapist relationship and that when that relationship becomes paradoxical it becomes more difficult for the patient to view himself as a reified "thing." Paradox effects change, then, by altering the meaning of experience and modifying epistemological assumptions.

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Paradox as Epistemological Jump

Rosenbaum

1982

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Leaving Home: Later Stages of Treatment

Perrotta

1986

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While the Leaving Home approach has greatly enhanced the work of many therapists struggling to help troubled young adults and their families, a more thorough consideration of the difficulties that often arise in the later stages of Leaving Home treatment is still needed. This paper examines the ways in which the function of the symptom and difficulties with life-cycle transitions may lead to problems in the later stages of treatment. Common manifestations of later-stage problems, including loss of therapeutic focus and failure of parents to follow through on plans are examined. Direct and indirect strategies for addressing these problems are identified and guidelines for their use presented.

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Self-Evaluation and Choice: An Existential View of Paradoxical Treatments

Akillas

2001

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The use of the term paradox in the domain of psychotherapy is fundamentally different from its use in philosophy. Paradoxical interventions are not statements that can be both true and false but rather are agents of therapeutic change. However, this reified usage of the term has made it difficult to clarify the process by which paradoxical treatments become efficacious. These treatments can be viewed as epistemological paradoxes because they challenge traditional assumptions about the nature of psychological problems. Based on this analysis, it is argued that the effects of paradoxical treatments are mediated by a self-evaluation process that leads to a change in the meaning clients attribute to their symptoms.

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