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PERSONAL AUTHORITY IN FAMILY EXPERIENCE VIA TERMINATION OF THE INTERGENERATIONAL HIERARCHICAL BOUNDARY: PART III—PERSONAL AUTHORITY DEFINED, AND THE POWER OF PLAY IN THE CHANGE PROCESS
Author(s) -
Williamson Donald S.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1982.tb01454.x
Subject(s) - individuation , dialectic , transgenerational epigenetics , family therapy , cognitive reframing , absurdity , psychology , triangulation , epistemology , social psychology , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , philosophy , pregnancy , cartography , biology , offspring , genetics , geography
Present transgenerational family therapy theory is analyzed, and it is suggested that individuation is on a continuum with fusion‐triangulation (family systems theory), that relational ethics are on a continuum with invisible loyalties (contextual family therapy), and that there is in fact but one continuum, so that these terms are well‐nigh interchangeable. Individuation‐relational ethics is presented in a (Hegelian) dialectic with intimacy; and personal authority in family experience is offered as the synthesizing construct in this dialectic. The change process in transgenerational family therapy is briefly noted. It is suggested that playfulness, including paradox and absurdity, is an effective intervention into the intense emotionality of inter generational work. A framework for and sequence of playful interventions are described.