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Reconstructing the Family's Reality — The Struggle of a Young Anorectic Woman and Her Family's Way of Viewing the World. *
Author(s) -
Durrant Michael
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0156-8779
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1984.tb00088.x
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , social reality , family therapy , anorectic , process (computing) , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , sociology , social constructionism , psychotherapist , social science , medicine , computer science , philosophy , law , political science , operating system , body weight
It is argued that systemic family therapy has much to gain from phenomenological social psychology and the sociology of knowledge. The similarities between social psychological concepts of social rule theory and concepts from structural/strategic therapy are discussed, as is the need for an examination of the construction of reality to complete these concepts. The theory of the social construction of reality is presented and its relevance to the ways in which families behave discussed. A case involving a young anorectic woman and her family is presented in detail to demonstrate the process of altering the processes of reality construction in the family so as to allow the members to pursue alternatives.