Aesthetics of Change

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Guilford Publications, 13 feb. 2017 - 217 sidor
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.

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Epistemology
12
Chapter 3 Cybernetic Epistemology
61
Chapter 4 A Cybernetic Description of Family Therapy
110
Chapter 5 Cybernetics of Therapeutic Change
150
Chapter 6 An Aesthetic Base for Family Therapy
187
References
202
Author Index
209
Subject Index
213
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Bradford P. Keeney, PhD, has worked at some of the most respected psychotherapy centers in the United States, including the Ackerman Institute in New York City, the Karl Menninger Center in Topeka, and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. He has served as Director of clinical doctoral programs at Texas Tech University and Nova University, and as Director of Scholarly Studies at the University of St. Thomas. He is the author of numerous classic works in the field of family therapy.

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