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Metaphors of family systems theory: toward new constructions

The literature that informs family therapy is rich with striking accounts of how therapeutic metaphors have helped to move families into healthier, energizing, freeing, and more satisfying relationships, yet little attention has been devoted to the development of alternative theoretical metaphors. This innovative new work investigates the uses and limitations of the standard metaphors of family systems theory. Perhaps more important, it also provides the means to generate alternative theoretical metaphors to stimulate new thinking about family systems.
Rosenblatt asserts that the capacity to recognize metaphors will enable clinicians and clients to identify biases, hidden implications, and reification, as well as what may have been overlooked. He shows the way this ability also helps us to organize and remember information, and to better appreciate the multilayeredness of "reality."
Initial chapters define metaphor and discuss family systems theory, as well as the uses and limitations of standard therapeutic metaphors.

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306.85 ROS m
Publisher
New York : Guildford Press.,
Collation
238p.; 23 cm.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
0-89862-321-9
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306.85
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Subject(s)
FAMILY PROBLEMS, SOCIOLOGY
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