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Thinking About Thinking in Family Therapy
Author(s) -
AUERSWALD EDGAR H.
Publication year - 1985
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.1545-5300.1985.00001.x
Subject(s) - congruence (geometry) , psychological intervention , distress , intervention (counseling) , psychology , psychotherapist , family therapy , action (physics) , space (punctuation) , social psychology , epistemology , psychiatry , computer science , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , operating system
Epistemological comparison reveals congruence between the reality‐defusing thought rules of new science, Batesonian evolution, and ecosystemic thinking with families and family therapy. These rules provide a base for a technology of therapy in which the therapist functions as a benign detective, seeking out with the family and others the event‐shape in time‐space (the Storey) that contains the reported distress. Intervention consists of action that adds to the Storey in a manner designed to alleviate the distress. A Storey is presented that illustrates the difference between medical, paradoxical, and ecosystemic interventions.