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Dialectical Metatheory in Family Therapy
Author(s) -
BOPP MICHAEL J.,
WEEKS GERALD R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1984.00049.x
Subject(s) - dialectic , metatheory , family therapy , demonstrative , epistemology , opposition (politics) , psychotherapist , psychology , sociology , philosophy , political science , linguistics , politics , law
This paper addresses the controversy in family therapy over basic philosophical issues in terms of a historical opposition between demonstrative and dialectical metatheories. It argues that advances in family therapy are indicative of the growing prominence of dialectical forms of understanding in the social sciences. Several family therapy concepts are explored as representative of the dialectical categories of motion, form, relationship, and transformation.