Whatever happened to biology? Reconnecting family therapy with its evolutionary origins

Launer, John

doi:10.1111/1467-6427.00175

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“…This has been used to scaffold thinking to help see events from different perspectives, or different positions, by moving the mirror, as it were (Tomm, 1987). Systemic psychotherapy is a well-established method of engaging with complexity and has been used helpfully to approach issues of clinical risk (Mason, 1993), as well as diversity, race and gender (Burnham, 2011) but the depth of Bateson's contribution is still poorly understood (Launer, 2001;Palmer, 2021).…”

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Deep Donkey and Dadirri: asking Creatura out to play

Duncan¹

2021

Murmurations

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This article is based on the premise that we are currently awakening to the full systemic impact of the emerging global ecological crisis which is already having a devastating effect on the ecosystems of the earth and also a highly destructive impact on psychological well-being. The ecological crisis has coincided with the painful awakening to the social and environmental destruction that has resulted from the legacy of a colonial world view of nature and culture. These events now demand a radical and deep adaption of our view of nature and culture. It is becoming clear that we are facing not only an ecological break down and a narrative collapse, but also a breakdown in how to make sense of what we are facing. This article explores how systemic psychotherapy and Gregory Bateson’s work on the gnostic ideas of pleroma and creatura, can provide a framework to support the Decolonial Turn but also an EcoSystemic Return. This article uses the children’s game of Donkey and the Indigenous Australian practice of Dadirri to playfully explore how we might overcome Bateson’s notion of epistemological error when engaging with systemic practice, Indigenous nature practice and quantum physics. The article suggests an imaginary game of Deep Donkey to overcome the destructive legacy of Cartesian dualism at the core of western culture and to begin to open western imagination to an intra-subjective dialogue with nature. I suggest the game of Deep Donkey could a helpful practice in realigning western thinking with sophisticated and long subjugated Indigenous ecological and cultural wisdom.

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Deep Donkey and Dadirri: asking Creatura out to play

Duncan¹

2021

Murmurations

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“…Many writers have detailed related weaknesses with regard to postmodernism's influence in family therapy (Flaskas, 1994;Frosh, 1995;Dallos and Urry, 1999), and have attempted to reconnect family therapy to its intellectual 'parents' and 'grandparents' within modernism through, for example, the evolutionary biology of Charles Darwin (Launer, 2001) and the communicative rationality of Jurgen Habermas (Donovan, 2003). I believe that family therapy might be enriched yet further by connecting it to its intellectual 'great grandparents' within 'pre-modernism' through the theory and practice of rhetoric.…”

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Honouring our great grandparents: towards a rhetorical analysis of family therapy

Klaushofer¹

2007

Journal of Family Therapy

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This paper argues that family therapy is an inherently and inescapably rhetorical activity, although its connections with rhetoric have remained largely ignored and the implications for practice unexplored. An uncritical acceptance of a range of postmodern ideas has led many family therapists to ignore the power of their therapeutic rhetoric. The paper offers rhetorical analysis as a tool to help family therapists to reflect on the rhetorical power of their practice and thereby to exercise this power more responsibly.

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“…We see this as representing a natural synthesis of family systems medicine and narrativebased medicine, one that is informed by a range of sources within medicine, social sciences, and narratology but that is oriented primarily toward practice and training in primary care. We have focused a great deal on how to manage the challenges of a taking a narrative-based approach in a medical world of real biological constraints and hard facts (Launer, 1996(Launer, , 2001.…”

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New stories for old: Narrative-based primary care in Great Britain.

Launer¹

2006

Families, Systems, & Health

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Narrative-based primary care has emerged in the United Kingdom through the convergence of narrative-based medicine and family systems medicine. This article describes how the convergence took place and gives an account of the theoretical ideas that underpin narrative-based primary care. The approach is illustrated with a case example and commentary. Drawing on both psychodynamic and dialogical theory, I argue that the role of primary care is often to find a new story that fits better than the old one.

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Whatever happened to biology? Reconnecting family therapy with its evolutionary origins

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Deep Donkey and Dadirri: asking Creatura out to play

Deep Donkey and Dadirri: asking Creatura out to play

Honouring our great grandparents: towards a rhetorical analysis of family therapy

New stories for old: Narrative-based primary care in Great Britain.

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