The Poetic Mind: Further Thoughts on an “Aesthetic Preference”

Allman, Lawrence R.

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1982.00415.x

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“…Discussion has focused primarily upon enabling family therapists to comprehend the nature of third‐order change—change which occurs on the logical level meta to the interactional system. From a higher level, Allman (2) suggests that one can see “therapy as an evolving, process rather than as a mechanical model of change” (p. 424).…”

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The Cybernetic Metaphor: A Critical Examination of Ecosystemic Epistemology as a Foundation of Family Therapy

Falzer¹

1986

Family Process

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This article proposes that recent disputes between two groups of family therapists, represented by Watzlawick and Keeney, have a substantive base as yet unexplicated in current literature. However, guiding principles of the approach known as ecosystemic epistemology have received considerable attention by Wittgenstein, a colleague of Russell's, and Rorty, a contemporary philosopher. Both contend that the prospect of systematizing language and culture may be ill advised. The article suggests that discussion regarding the nature and practice of family therapy ought not be confined to epistemological thinking.

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“…To quote Keeney (9): “We… forget that ‘interventions,’‘symptoms,’‘therapists,’ and ‘families’ are approximations or metaphors for larger patterns of relationship” (p. 162). In an even more revealing statement, All‐man (2) concurs:…”

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The Cybernetic Metaphor: A Critical Examination of Ecosystemic Epistemology as a Foundation of Family Therapy

Falzer¹

1986

Family Process

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“…In his reply to critics, Allman (1982b) dismisses their responses as evidence of the "pragmatic error." Pragmatic error, according to Allman, occurs whenever a person separates elements of what should be a unified reality and treats them as truly different things.…”

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Critiquing the New Epistemologies: Towardminimum Requirements for a Scientific Theory of Family Therapy*

Shields

1986

J Marital Family Therapy

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The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the structures of the new epistemologies. Epistemology is a technical term within the field of scientific philosophy. When it is used looselyby family therapists, confusion results. The central argument of the present author is that the new epistemologies are, in fact, weak theories. It is suggested that the practice of using the term “epistemology” to denote theory or paradigm, be discontinued. A more limited and narrowly defined use for the term “epistemology” is proposed. Specifically, this paper presents: (a) a discussion ofthree areas of philosophy that serve as foundations for the construction of scientific theory, (b)a critical analysis of the new epistemologies, (c) a logical structure for scientific family therapy theory, and (d) minimum requirements for a scientific theory of family therapy.

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“…Change is thought to emerge from within the family, or perhaps within the family‐therapist supra‐system, rather than to be imposed upon the family by the therapist. The theorists of this camp (1, 13, 24, 40, 46) tend to deemphasize the power aspects of therapy and even the notion that families resist therapists (12, 14, 17). As described previously, paradoxical interventions are seen much more as a method for accepting, joining with, and mirroring a family's own unique organization (16).…”

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Paradox and Polarity: The Tao of Family Therapy

Jordan¹

1985

Family Process

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Taoism is a Chinese spiritual tradition whose central metaphors concern polarity, paradox, and the natural process of change. Taoist ideas offer a particularly useful framework for understanding paradoxical interventions, the stance of the paradoxical therapist, and the new epistemology emerging in the field. The relevance of three Taoist metaphors for family therapists is discussed: polarity, cyclical change, and Wu Wei (noninterference).

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The Poetic Mind: Further Thoughts on an “Aesthetic Preference”

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

The Cybernetic Metaphor: A Critical Examination of Ecosystemic Epistemology as a Foundation of Family Therapy

The Cybernetic Metaphor: A Critical Examination of Ecosystemic Epistemology as a Foundation of Family Therapy

Critiquing the New Epistemologies: Towardminimum Requirements for a Scientific Theory of Family Therapy*

Paradox and Polarity: The Tao of Family Therapy

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