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Never‐ending Transitions: From Odd to Ordinary
Author(s) -
Holmes Sophie
Publication year - 1997
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.1467-8438.1997.tb00263.x
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , project commissioning , context (archaeology) , politics , sociology , publishing , media studies , psychology , aesthetics , social psychology , history , political science , law , art , psychotherapist , archaeology
This keynote address invites readers and listeners to go on a journey seeking out ‘sacred cows’, observing their habits, understanding their context and their effect on family therapists, families, individuals and communities. It may not be a comfortable journey because it is possibly about your family and certainly about your community. Australian society is being constructed from pieces of families. Families dismembered by war and other socio‐political events as well as personal catastrophes. In general, we skirt over the imprints of such events as these, preferring to keep them at a distance by calling them couragoues or heroic stories or pathologies and by prescribing treatments that may have little practical use or meaning.