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Systems in Settings: The Therapist as Power Broker *
Author(s) -
MacKin Laurie
Publication year - 1993
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.1467-8438.1993.tb00952.x
Subject(s) - position (finance) , family therapy , psychology , power (physics) , psychotherapist , project commissioning , relation (database) , publishing , social psychology , business , political science , law , computer science , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , database
Family therapy discourse has given little recognition to either the specificities of the settings in which family therapy is employed or to the specificites of our clients. Clients are frequently constituted into the culturally subordinate position of ‘other’ to the therapist. This paper examines the ethical imperatives of the position therapists occupy in relation to their others.