Science and Family Therapy

Legg, Charles

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“…The shift to postmodernism may be read as a change in the forms of knowledge resulting from changes in the operation of power in contemporary society. The combination of the general crisis of legitimization (Lyotard, 1984) and a local failure to develop coherent legitimizing discourse within science (Legg, 1997) has diverted power from professional groups such as family therapists to clients acting as consumers. Cynics might think that postmodern discourse allows family therapists to retain their right to practise and society at large to retain their services to enforce what some might think to be a conservative social agenda (Hare-Mustin, 1994;Kogan, 1998).…”

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How to be a postmodernist: a user’s guide to postmodern rhetorical practices

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Stagaki

2002

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Family therapists are being encouraged to adopt a postmodern approach to therapy and knowledge. Postmodernism is more than a set of beliefs that therapists can either accept or reject; it is an approach to the construction of truth that eschews many of the forms of argumentation, such as appeals to logic or evidence, characteristic of earlier writing in family therapy. In this paper we present some of the alternative rhetorical strategies used by contemporary family therapy and family therapy texts in the construction of novel truths. These strategies include: writing in the first person; making qualified or conditional assertions; implying rather than stating truths; ‘delegitimizing’ conflicting views; and ignoring disagreement. We discuss the value of these strategies in maintaining the authority of therapists and commentators on therapy in the face of the widespread incredulity towards metanarratives, such as science, that characterize postmodern society.

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How to be a postmodernist: a user’s guide to postmodern rhetorical practices

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Stagaki

2002

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“…The phrase 'intuitive psychology' is not intended to be dismissive (and the ideas being referred to here are akin to those more extensively developed by Legge, 1997). Family systems therapy invokes ideas about the human condition which, like psychoanalytic psychotherapy, are based upon what can also be seen as a particular (now old-fashioned) version of scientific thinking and procedure.…”

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Psychoanalysis and Family Systems Revisited: the Old, Old Story?

Dare

1998

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Psychoanalysis and family systems revisited: the old, old story?Christopher Dare a This paper explores some commonalities in the current state of psychoanalysis and family therapy in Britain. It argues that there have been social changes within Britain that have increased the popularity of the practices and concepts of psychotherapy and counselling. The methods and ideas of psychoanalysis seem to be the major influence in this process which is manifest, for the most part, within private therapy and counselling and in the universities. It appears that family therapists and the institutes of psychoanalysis act as if unaware of this pragmatic acceptance of psychoanalytic thinking. The two disciplines of family therapy and psychoanalysis remain organizationally and conceptually disassociated from each other despite the two subjects having considerable overlap, plying adjacent trades and using theoretical ideas which show considerable parallels. The paper proposes that postmodern thinking is, potentially, an evolving link between the two forms of thinking and therapy but that the theories of both psychoanalysis and family therapy require empirical evaluation.

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Constructionist approaches to bereavement and therapy: Part I

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1998

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Science and Family Therapy

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How to be a postmodernist: a user’s guide to postmodern rhetorical practices

How to be a postmodernist: a user’s guide to postmodern rhetorical practices

Psychoanalysis and Family Systems Revisited: the Old, Old Story?

Constructionist approaches to bereavement and therapy: Part I

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