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Family sculpting: II. Some practical examples
Author(s) -
Hearn Jeff,
Lawrence Marilyn
Publication year - 1985
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..1985.00670.x
Subject(s) - ambiguity , set (abstract data type) , interpretation (philosophy) , relation (database) , choreography , computer science , visual arts , programming language , art , data mining , dance
This paper reviews a number of practical examples of family sculpting to illustrate possibilities for its use described in a general way in an earlier companion article (Journal of Family Therapy (1981) 3: 341–352). Examples are considered first in relation to generic practical possibilities for sculpting: structural analysis and diagnosis, the inescapability of the concrete, the portrayal of ambiguity. A second set of examples is considered in relation to major practical contexts of sculpting: with children, with students, with workers. The paper concludes with a discussion of the complexity of family sculpting and a comparison of the structural interpretation of sculpting offered here with Papp et al. 's notion of choreography.