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Family therapy without the family: a framework for systemic practice
Author(s) -
Jenkins Hugh,
Asen Karl
Publication year - 1992
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..1992.00439.x
Subject(s) - systemic therapy , psychodynamics , family therapy , psychotherapist , psychology , join (topology) , psychodynamic psychotherapy , systems thinking , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , cancer , combinatorics , breast cancer
This paper contrasts the basic tenets of systemic thinking with some guiding principles of the psychodynamic approach, and outlines specific techniques which family therapists can use when seeing individuals. It is argued that a useful systemic framework can be maintained if the therapist aims to keep the therapy system ‘open’ for relevant others to join at any time.