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Every Dot has a Meaning
Author(s) -
Brown Colleen,
Larner Glenn
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1992.tb00917.x
Subject(s) - active listening , oppression , indigenous , conversation , meaning (existential) , project commissioning , identity (music) , publishing , gender studies , sociology , media studies , psychology , political science , aesthetics , psychotherapist , communication , law , art , ecology , politics , biology
Family therapy in Australia has recently begun a conversation with the indigenous people of this country. Part of this dialogue has involved family therapists listening to the stories of violence and oppression perpetrated against the Aboriginal people under the name of “protection”. This article is part of the ongoing exchange between family therapists and Kooris documenting the suffering of “the stolen generation”. Here two young people removed from their families as small children and raised in the same Aboriginal children's home, speak personally through their art, of an agonising search for family and cultural identity.