Aesthetics of Change ( The Guilford Family Therapy Series )

Publication series ：The Guilford Family Therapy Series

Author： Keeney> Bradford P.  

Publisher： Guilford Publications Inc‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781593858919

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780898620436

Subject： R749.055 psychological therapy

Keyword： 神经病学与精神病学,社会学

Language： ENG

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Description

The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family therapy, Bradford P. Keeney demonstrates that conventional epistemology, in which cause and effect have a linear relationship, does not sufficiently accommodate the reciprocal nature of causation in experience. Written in an unconventional style that includes stories, case examples, and imagined dialogues between an epistemologist and a skeptical therapist, the volume presents a philosophically grounded, ecological framework for contemporary clinical practice.

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Epistemology

Alternative Epistemologies

Laws of Form

Punctuation

Orders of Recursion

Double Description

Constructing a Reality

Discussion

Chapter 3. Cybernetic Epistemology

Simple Cybernetics

Cybernetics of Cybernetics

Self-Reference

Autonomy

Dialectic of Calibration and Feedback

Cybernetic Complementarities

Discussion

Chapter 4. A Cybernetic Description of Family Therapy

Pattems of Distinction

Cybernetic Systems

Pathology and Health

Therapist

Ecology

Discussion

Chapter 5. Cybernetics of Therapeutic Change

Modeling Pattem

Orders of Learning

Unconscious Process

Sociofeedback

Discussion

Chapter 6. An Aesthetic Base for Family Therapy

Conscious Purpose

Art and Craft

Practice

Stories: The Royal Road to Epistemology

A Beginning

Discussion

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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