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Wilber's ‘Broad Science’: A Cure for Postmodernism?
Author(s) -
Westheafer Charles
Publication year - 2004
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.1467-8438.2004.tb00592.x
Subject(s) - postmodernism , sociology , project commissioning , power (physics) , epistemology , constructionism , social constructionism , psychoanalysis , publishing , social science , psychology , philosophy , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper will argue that postmodernism has gone too far in suggesting that all of reality is socially constructed. The result is a return to pre‐modern thought, where observation and verifiability are discredited. Wilber's model of Broad Science is used as a means of maintaining the insights of Social Constructionism while avoiding the extremes of postmodernism. His Four‐Quadrant model of Broad Science offers a means to integrate all therapies into a coherent framework, thus avoiding many of the power struggles that have been characteristic of family therapy's history.