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HAVING A SECOND‐ORDER MIND WHILE DOING FIRST‐ORDER THERAPY
Author(s) -
Simon George M.
Publication year - 1992
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.1752-0606.1992.tb00951.x
Subject(s) - schism , dialectic , framing (construction) , order (exchange) , psychotherapist , psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , law , history , political science , archaeology , finance , politics , economics
An overemphasis in the literature on distinguishing the first‐ and second‐order therapeutic perspectives has produced a schism within the field of family therapy. This article attempts to bridge that schism. The view of language that informs dialectical psychology is used to construct a both‐and framing of the first‐and second‐order perspectives, a framing which renders intelligible how it is that one can have a second‐order mind while doing first‐order therapy. A case example is used to illustrate what such a therapeutic posture might look like in practice.