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Family Sculpting: I. Some doubts and some possibilities
Author(s) -
Hearn Jeff,
Lawrence Marilyn
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1046/j..1981.00569.x
Subject(s) - concreteness , family therapy , ambiguity , psychoanalytic theory , context (archaeology) , psychology , faith , sort , psychotherapist , epistemology , cognitive psychology , computer science , history , philosophy , archaeology , information retrieval , programming language
Family sculpting is reviewed within the context of general doubts that confront family therapy, in particular the need for a certain act of faith in therapy, and the search for some sort of underlying theory. Family sculpting is most often used in reference to the psychoanalytic tradition of family therapy, but here the case is made for more serious attention to structural approaches. The potential of family sculpting is further explored in a number of other respects: its concreteness, its portrayal of ambiguity and its use with students, workers and other groups.