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The March of Time: Rigid or Chaotic Transactions, Two Different Ways of Living Time
Author(s) -
AUSLOOS GUY
Publication year - 1986
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.1545-5300.1986.00549.x
Subject(s) - parallels , chaotic , politics , discrete time and continuous time , computer science , psychology , sociology , law , operations management , mathematics , artificial intelligence , economics , political science , statistics
In this paper the author shows that families do not live time in the same way. In families with rigid transactions, time is arrested; in families with chaotic transactions time is eventful. These different ways of living time are true of all systems, and parallels are drawn with political systems. Therapists must thus manage the therapeutic time in different ways, and this depends, among other factors, on their “personal equation.” To achieve this, some guidelines are given, and two techniques that we call photograms and historiograms are described.