Where Is the Family in Narrative Family Therapy?

Minuchin, Salvador

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1998.tb01094.x

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“…This article is in the wake of an earlier discussion among Minuchin (1998), Combs and Freedman (1998), Tomm (1998), and Sluzki (1998). Levy's meta-analysis from a social theory perspective situates a narrative metaphor clearly in an interpretive approach (e.g., Geertz, 1973Geertz, , 1986, distinguishing it from structural theory by using macro and micro perspectives.…”

Section: Poststructuralismmentioning

confidence: 91%

Positioning Oneself Within an Epistemology: Refining Our Thinking About Integrative Approaches

Dickerson¹

2010

Family Process

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Integrative approaches seem to be paramount in the current climate of family therapy and other psychotherapies. However, integration between and among theories and practices can only occur within a specific epistemology. This article makes a distinction between three different epistemologies: individualizing, systems, and poststructural. It then makes the argument that one can integrate theories within epistemologies and one can adopt practices and some theoretical concepts across theories and across epistemologies, but that it is impossible to integrate theories across epistemologies. It further states that although social constructionism has influenced much of contemporary psychological thinking, because of the divergence between a structural and a poststructural approach, constructionism looks different depending upon one's epistemological stance. Examples of integration within epistemologies and of what looks like integration across epistemologies (but is not) further illustrate these important distinctions. The conclusions reached here are crucial to our philosophical considerations, our pedagogical assumptions, and implications for both research and a reflexive clinical practice.

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Section: Poststructuralismmentioning

confidence: 91%

Positioning Oneself Within an Epistemology: Refining Our Thinking About Integrative Approaches

Dickerson¹

2010

Family Process

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“…Since, for the postmodern therapist, the individual is seen as a prisoner of stories which other people tell about him, the therapist's task is to reinstate the rights of the disadvantaged individual in the presence of the family, considering him as a bearer of alternative knowledges and helping him to tell 'alternative stories' of success (White and Epston, 1989). The unit of observation and of maximum interest for the therapist (even if he considers himself as a family therapist) goes back to the individual, rather than to the family or the couple, as Minuchin (1998) has pointed out in his careful examination of the practice of four distinguished postmodern therapists.…”

Section: Prescriptions For the Postmodern Therapistmentioning

confidence: 99%

Text and context: narrative, postmodernism and cybernetics

Bertrando

2000

Journal of Family Therapy

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Currently, the systemic view in family therapy is being substituted by a postmodern narrative approach, while cybernetics tends to be considered an outdated perspective and its contribution to therapy overlooked. This paper proposes an epigenetic view for the evolution of theories, according to which a narrative therapy without systems is incomplete. The paper lists the implicit and explicit prescriptions to which a postmodern narrative therapist is subjected, and reviews some criticisms of the systemic perspective made by postmodern authors. Some internal inconsistencies of postmodern narrative therapies are considered, and some ways forward suggested.

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“…more privileged ' (1998, p. 380) within the field. This essay therefore offers a criticism of narrative therapy from a different perspective to Minuchin's (1998) but does so none the less. Doan argues for tolerance and diversity within narrative therapy -not every narrativist needs to 'externalize', for instance (1998, p. 385).…”

Section: Reconsidering Constructionist Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%