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Abbott, E., 134
Ackerman, N., 15
Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, 53–54, 71, 124
active listening, 246–47
Adelphi School of Social Work, 34, 37, 38–39
Aesthetics of Change, The, 112
A.K. Rice Institute, 137
Alexander, C., 216
Allen, D., 114
ambiguity, 127
American Psychological Association, 267–68
Andersen, T., xviii, 92, 125, 137, 138, 148, 167–68, 205, 247–48, 256, 276
communal practice, 271
therapeutic technique, 150–53, 155–58, 162, 163–67
Anderson, C., xvii
Anderson, H., xviii, 128, 134–35, 152, 201, 202, 270, 276
conceptual approach to therapy, 139–40, 146–47, 226–27
teaching style, 205–6
therapeutic technique, 141–46, 211–12, 213–16
Anderssen, M., 125
Angels Fear, 116, 263
Aponte, H., 40
therapeutic relationship, 41, 49–50
therapeutic technique, 41–49
Armstrong, M. N., 246–47
Aronson, E., 231
as-if listeners, 203, 204–6, 209, 212–13
Auerswald, E. H., 33, 34–36, 49
ecosystemic approach, 19–21
therapeutic technique, 23–26
Bachelard, G., 140, 161, 214
Bahktin, M., 159, 161
Baker, L., 40
Baldwin, D., 190, 192, 197
Baldwin, R., 186
Bandler, R., 75–76
Bateson, G., xi, 12–13, 99, 111–12, 113, 116, 123–24, 134, 168, 259, 260–65, 276
Bateson, M. C., 116, 190, 263, 274–76
Bateson project, 10, 11, 129, 239
Bavelas, J., 10, 241–42, 246, 263
Becker, C., 266
Becvar, D., 268
Becvar, R., 268
Behan, C., 230–35, 236
Belenky, M., 119–20
Berg, I., xvi–xvii
Berger, P., 202
Bergman, J., 72, 73, 76, 77
Berman, A., 221, 222
Bion, W, 137
Black, A., 241
blame, in concepts of pathology and change, xv, 106–7
Blount, A., 115
bodily feelings, 159, 163–65, 181
Body Speaks, The, 159, 181
Boscolo, L., xvi, 71, 73, 76, 83, 125, 136, 138–39, 204, 205
Boyd-Franklin, N., xvii
Brattleboro Institute of Family Therapy, 148, 149, 169
Brief Therapy Project, 50, 53, 54, 71
Broome Street Network, The, 27
Brown, L. M., 118
Bruner, J., 219, 222–23, 223
Buckley, W., 6, 19
Burman, E., xvii, 260
Burnham, J., 124–25
Byrne, N., 125, 126, 127
Cade, B., 124
Campbell, D., 124
Capra, F., 134
Carter, C., xvii, 119
case conferences, 185–87
Cecchin, G., xvi, 71, 73, 76, 83, 92, 125, 136, 138–39
change
concept of, 91
emotional outcomes, 110
Goolishian’s concept, 140
implications of blame in, 106–7
mechanism of, 105–6
paradoxical approach, 109–10
therapist role in, 107
chaos theory, 134, 136
Chasin, L., 266
Chasin, R., 266
Chodorow, N., 117
circular questioning, xvi, 92–93
Clinchy, B., 119
coalition relationships within family, 69
Coase, R., 105
Coates, L., 241
cognitive functioning
Auerswald’s ecosystemic approach, 21, 26
constructivist model, 122–23
cultural context, 260
gender differences, 117–18
influence of language on, 133
knowing of the third kind, 240
reflection-in-action, xix
representational theory of knowledge, 133
coincidence, 243
collaborative practice, xviii
communal practice, xi, 269–71
communication, 259
ambiguity in, 127
community and, 269–70
connected speaking, 247–49
constructionist theory, 203
gender differences in, 120–21
generous listening, 244–47
in knowing of the third kind, 240
language and, 102
psychopathology as problem of, xv, 6
schizophrenic, 13
social poetics, 159–61
as subject of psychology, 265–66
tempathy concept, 242–44
therapeutic, 161–67
community mental health movement, 115
community of concern, 229
community of witnesses, 227
conference proceedings, 120–21
connected speaking, 247–49
constructionism, see social constructionism
constructivist theory, 134, 202
conceptual development, 122
implications for psychotherapy, 123, 124
Conversations, Language, and Possibilities, 147, 201
Cooperrider, D., 266
counter-story formulation, 220
Crawford, M., xvii
“Crazy”Therapies, xv
crisis intervention, 158–59
open dialogue in, 271–72
Cronin, V., 124
Cruz, G., 22
cultural context, xvii, 21–23, 127, 262
cognitive functioning, 260
creation of self in, 223
genograms, xvii, 203–4
transparency in therapy, 150–51
cybernetics, 6, 122, 123, 134, 146–47
implications for psychotherapy, 123, 124
Davidson, D., 245
Davidson, J., 150, 169
Davis, J., 182, 192, 194, 197, 253–55
decentered sharing, 249
decentering, 208, 226
deconstructionism, 221, 222
Deissler, K., 159–60
Deleuze, J., 249
Dell, P, 136
Demeuron, M., 21
Derrida, J., xh, 124, 130, 131, 132, 219, 221, 222, 225–26
de Shazer, S., xvi—xvii
diagnostic labeling, 21
dialogism, 161
Dillard, A., 21
Discipline and Punish, 224
double bind, 6, 12–13, 261
Downstate Medical Center, 50
Draper, R., 124, 191
Dulwich Center, 125
dysfunctional, 7
ecostructural approach, 41
ecosystemic approaches, 21–23, 134, 260
Auerswald’s, 19–21, 34
Hetrick’s, 27–33
Ehrenreich, B., xvii
Elkaim, M., 249
Ellman, B., xvii, 119
embracement, 251–55
emotional functioning
change processes, 110
relational theory, 256
as social process, 241–42
emotional main chance, 255–56
empathy, 41, 49–50, 119, 181, 242–43
with emotional consequences of change, 110
epistemological analysis, 137–38
epistemological errors, 113
Epston, D, 58, 130, 185, 200, 219, 266
theory of psychotherapy, xvii-xviii, 223, 226–27
Erickson, M., 13–14, 237
essentialist approach, 91, 99–100, 202
EST, 136
ethical practice, 261–64, 267–69
Exchanging Voices, 124
experience-near, 233
externalizing technique, 219–20
Falicov, C., xvii
Families of the Slums, 19
family functioning
change mechanisms, 105–6
coalition relationships within, 69
conceptual evolution, 259–61
Fifth Province concept, 126–27
MRI typology, 6–7
overwhelming relationship fields, 99–100
power relations in, 113
schizophrenic, 101
toxic secrets in, 100–101
women’s perception of relational processes and, 118–19
Family Health team, 20
Family Institute in Cardiff, 124, 191
family myth, 76
Family Process (journal), 10, 14, 33, 100, 112, 140
Family Systems Medicine (journal), 121
Family Therapy Network of Ireland, 125–27
Fans, G., 191
Feminism, Community, and Communication, 274
feminist thought, xvii, 80, 113, 117, 118, 119–20, 121, 122, 260
Fisch, R., xv, 13–14
Fish, S., 221
Flatland, 134
Flegenheimer, J., 188
Fontes, C., 190
Foucault, M., xii, xvii-xviii, 130, 219, 223–24, 226, 227
Foundations of Family Therapy, 125, 136
Frankfurt, M., xviii, 165, 266
Franklin, Paul, 15
Freidson, E., 259
Freudian theory, xv
Full Circles, Overlapping Lives, 275
Fulweiler, C., 16
future-questioning, 92
Gadamer, H-G., 140
Gaia hypothesis, 116
Gay Men’s Health Alliance, 27
Geertz, C., 219, 224
gender differences
in development, 117–19
implications for psychotherapy practice, 119–21
in moral reasoning, 117–18
General Systems Theory, 6
generous listening, 244–47
genograms, xvii, 203–4
Gergen, K., xvih, 130, 134, 159, 185, 190, 201, 202, 203, 260, 261–64, 266, 267, 269–70, 276–77
Gergen, M., 190, 261
Gilligan, C., xx, 117–18, 119, 239, 267, 268
Glaser, R., xii
Gleick, J., 134
goal of therapy
as changing meanings, 76
in collaborative practice, xviii
conceptual evolution, xi
Goolishian’s concept, 139
narrative construction as, 223
in relational practice, 256–57
Golann, S., 115
Goldberger, N., 119
Goldner, V., 119, 179
Goode, E., 260
Goodman, N., 216
Goodrich, T.J., xvii, 119
Goolishian, H., xviii, 128, 134–37, 152, 174, 205, 226, 276
conceptual approach to therapy, 139–40, 146–47
therapeutic technique, 141–46
Gopnik, A., 130
Gordon Conference, 123
gossip technique, 92
Gouverneur Health Services, 19–34
Grevelius, K., 125
Griffith, J., 159, 181
Griffith, M., 159, 181
Grinder, J., 75–76
Guattari, E, 249
Haddad, D., 192, 194
Haid, M., 150, 153, 154–55, 157–58
Haley, J., xx, 4, 8, 10, 11–12, 13, 14–15, 16, 34, 39, 40, 91, 112–13, 201, 224, 237, 270
Halstead, K., xvii, 119
Hansen, A., 152
Hardy, K., xvii, 203
Hare-Mustin, R., xvii, 120, 268
Harré, R., 201, 260
Harris, Q., 124–25
Hartman, A., 115
hermeneutics, 140
Herzig, M., 266
Hetrick, E., 27–33
Holzman, L., 276
homeostasis, in systems theory, 136
I-Ching, 50–51
Imber-Black, E., 100, 101, 115
Imber-Coppersmith, E., 100
imbroglio, xvi, 74–75, 99
In a Different Voice, 117
inclusivity therapy, 252–53
Ingress, J., 192
Inner and Outer Space, 23
institutional discourse, 223–24
interpersonal relationship
gender differences in relationship style, 117–21
in knowing of the third kind, 240
social poetics, 159–61
Invitation to Social Construction, 202, 261
Jackson, D., xv, 5, 7, 10, 15–16, 34, 241
James, W., 202
Johnson, T., 241
Jordan, J.V., 119
Just Gaming, 245
Kaos (movie), 120
Katz, A., xviii, 160
Kearney, P., 125, 126
Keeney, B., 112, 113, 136–37
Kensington Center, 124
Kikoski, C., 115
King’s County Hospital, 50
Kinman, C., 273–74
Kohlberg, L., 117, 267
Kuhn, T., 129–30
Laird, J., 115
Lalich, J., xv
Landis, E., 190, 194
Lane, G., xvi
Lang, P., 124
Lang, S., 124
language
checking out process, 141–43
communication and, 102
epistemological errors, 113
inability to describe powerful relationship fields, 99–100, 102
open dialogue, 271–74
picture/painted, 155, 204
poetic, 249
positive reframing, 8
postmodern thought, 131–34, 264–65
of psychotherapy, 201
in shaping of thought, 133
spatial metaphors in, 133, 134
language games, 102, 245
Lannamann, J., 261, 265
Laszloffy T., xvii
Lax, W., 148, 150, 169–70, 175, 177, 178–79, 182
Leeds-Hurwitz, E., 203
Lemery, C. R., 241
Lescure, J., 140
Liebman, R., 40
Lipps, H., 140
listening in on conversation, 92
literary theory, 221
Little, M., 124
London, S., 206, 211–12
Long, L., 33
Lovelock, J., 116
loyalty field, 102
Luckman, T., 202
Lurie, A., 3
Lussardi, D., 148, 150, 169, 175
Lyotard, J-E, xii, xviii, 132, 181, 244–45, 259–60, 270
MacGregor, R., 214
Macy conferences, 123
Madanes, C., 40
Mak-It group, 188–89, 191
managed care, xii
mantra, 104
Maracek, J., 120
Margolies, L., 116
marital relationship, 68, 81–82, 83
Marxist thought, 132
Matthews, W., 116
Maturana, H., xi, 122, 123, 136, 137, 146
McCann, T., 231
McCarthy, I., 125, 126
McGee, D., 246
McGoldrick, M., xvii
McKinnon, L., 122
McNamee, S., 190, 203, 261, 265, 266, 267, 277
Mead, G. H., 202
Mead, M., 123, 274
Meeting at the Crossroads, 118
Mental Research Institute, xv, 4, 5, 6
family typology, 6–7
Mermey, A., 191
metanarrative, 132, 226, 227, 259–60
metaphor, 56–57, 58–61, 276
acts of, 162
Andersen’s use of, 155–57
power of, 249
toxic family relationships, 99–102
Wittgenstein’s use of, 131
Meyer, A., xv
Milan group, xvi, 53, 62, 69, 138
concept of family system, 71–72
concept of psychopathology, 74–75
teams meetings, 124–25
technique, 72–73, 92, 102–3, 138–39
termination of therapy, 109
therapist neutrality in, 98
Millea, P., 141
Miller, D., 122
Miller, J., 117
Minuchin, S., 19, 34, 39, 40
Mobile Crisis Unit, 19–20, 23, 27
modernism, xii, xiv, 91, 130
Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist, 19
Montalvo, B., 19
moral development, 117–18
Mosaic, 190, 191
mother-child relations, 119
mourning, 78–79
saying hello again, 234–35, 237
Mullett, J., 241
multiple impact therapy, 135
Multiple Impact Therapy with Families, 135
Muyskins, D., 190
Myerhoff, B., 219, 220, 225
Narratives of Therapists’ Lives, 249
narrative therapies, xvii–xviii, 130, 219–20, 223
activism in, 227
New Criticism, 221–22
Newfield, H., 267, 269
Newfield, S., 267
Newman, E, xx, 276
Nisbett, R., 260
non-knowing, 140
Norris, C, 219
North Central Human Services, 189, 190, 192
not-knowing, xviii, 139–40, 146, 147, 169, 205
objectivity, 122
O’Hanlon, W., xvi, 121, 252
Olson, M., 203, 274, 276
Ong, W., 239
open dialogue, 271–74
organizational consulting, 266
Osborne, C., 230–33, 235–36
outcomes research, xii outsider witnesses, 227, 249
Pakman, M., 272–73
Papp, P., xvii, 50, 53, 54, 71, 119
paradigmatic thinking, xiv, 129–30
Paradox and Counterparadox, 53, 62, 71
paradoxical messages, xvi, 54, 62, 95–96, 102–3
concept of change, 109–10
failure of, 96–97
as mantra, 104
Milan group practice, 75
paradoxical tasks, xv-xvi, 13–14
Parsons, T, 135
Patten, J., 75, 77, 91, 124
Pearce, B., 124
Peirce, C., 202
Penn, P, xviii, 75, 76, 91, 92, 119, 124, 149, 161–63, 165, 266, 271–72, 276
People’s Bridge Action, 186–90, 191, 200
Percy, W., 265
Peripheral Visions, 275
Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, 16, 34, 39, 40, 49–50
Phillips, B., 246
Philosophical Investigations, 131
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, 133
Platonic thought, 131–32
Poetics of Space, The, 140, 214
poetry, 127
positive reframing, 8
positivism, 130, 132
Poster, M., 222
Postmodern Condition, The, 132
postmodernism, xii, xiv, 124, 130
conceptual basis, 130–31, 132, 133–34
therapeutic significance, 147, 148, 201, 227, 239
in therapy practice, 272–73
postpositivism, 130, 131
poststructuralism, 130, 131, 221–23, 222
in narrative therapy 225–27
power relations, 113
Pragmatics of Human Communication, 10, 241
Prata, G., xvi, 71, 74
prescribed relapse, 68–69, 96
Prigogine, I., 134, 136
psychopathology
as communication problem, xv
conceptual evolution, xii—xiii, xv, xvi—xvii
as family premise, 76
flawed conceptualization of causality in, 129
Goolishian’s concept of, 139
Milan group concept of, 74–75
modernist concept of, 262–63
MRI concept of, xv, 6–7
multigenerational context, 76–77
overwhelming relationship fields, 99–102
as power relations issue, 113
problem formulation, 91
White’s terminology, 224
Public Conversation Project, 266
Pulliam, G., 136
Quintero, J., 198
Rabinow, P, xvii
Rabkin, R., xvi, 23–27
race/ethnicity, xvii
Ragsdale, K., xii
Rampage, C., xvii, 119
Ransom, D., 112, 113
Ratheau, M., 153, 169–74
Raush, H., 114, 161
Ravich, R., 22
reader response theory, 221
Readings, W., 132
Realities and Relationships, 269–70
Reeves, R., xiii
reflecting process, 92, 148, 266
application, 151–52, 153–55, 157–58, 169–74, 192–200, 206–12, 230–36
in case consultation, 185–87, 189
in classroom setting, 192
communal practice in, 270–71
as communitarian effort, 198, 200
conceptual basis, xix, 149–50
in conferences, 190–91
in crisis intervention, 158–59
image-sharing in, 249–50
training for, 174–77
White’s technique, 220
Refecting Team, The, 149
reflection-in-action, xix
Reflective Practitioner, The, xviii
relapse prevention, 68–69, 96
relational responsibility, 261–64, 265, 266–67
Relational Responsibility, 261
relative influence questioning, 58, 220
representational theory of knowledge, 133
rituals and ceremonies, 75, 78, 79, 102–3, 197
in social creation of self, 224–25
Rober, P., 250
Roberts, J., 115, 189
Robinson, M., 191
Rogers, C., 179–81
Rogoff, B., 260
Romney, R, 274
Rorty, R., 133
Rosman, B., 40
Ross, J., 75, 77, 91, 124
Roth, S., 266
Routledge, R., 246, 274
Ruesch, J., 259, 263
Russell, B., 131
sacrifice intervention, 79, 87
Said, E., 262
Sampson, E., 270
Satir, V., 4–6, 7–9, 14–15, 49, 206
Schafer, R., 223
schizophrenia, clinical concept, 112
schizophrenic communication, 13, 101–2
Schoen, D., xiv, xviii-xix, 190, 202, 265, 272
Schwartz, G., 88, 155, 242
second order move, 72
Seikkula, J., 271–72
self
culture and, 223
institution and, 223–24
social creation of, 224–25
as unit of analysis, 263
Seligman, P, 124
Selvini Palazzoli, M., xvi, 53, 69, 71, 72, 73–74, 92, 99, 102–3
sexual themes, 80
Shadish, W., xii Shaw, R., 136–37
Shawver, L., 130, 132, 242, 247, 264, 276
Sheinberg, M., 119, 149
Shelf Theory, 133
Shotter, J., xviii, 102, 159, 160, 201, 239–40, 265
Showalter, E., xvii silence, in therapy, 180–81
Silverstein, O., xvii, 50, 53, 54, 71, 119
Singer, M., xiv-xv Sluzki, C., 112, 113, 123
Smith, T., 267
social constructionism, xviii, 7–8, 122, 130, 169, 185, 202,210
conceptual evolution, 202
ethical practice, 261
therapeutic significance, 202–3
Social Construction of Reality, 202
social justice issues, 115, 267, 273
social poetics, 159–61
Solomon, E., 125
solution-focused therapy, xvi—xvii, 177, 178–79
Speed, B., 124
Spence, D., 223
Spencer, T., 2
Sperry, J., 267
spontaneity, 92
spouse abuse, 113, 118–19, 122
Stengers, I., 134
Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 116, 260
stigmatization, 7, 41
strategic therapy, 99–100, 112–13
Strategies of Psychotherapy, 10, 18
strengths and resources orientation, 7
family ecostructure assessment, 42–44
structuralism, 221–22
structural therapy, 99–100
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The, 129
supervision, 38
Surrey, J. L., 119
symptoms, meaning of, 7
systemic therapy, 73, 99–100, 122, 125, 182
ethical practice, 268
limitations, 260
Szivos, J., 190
Tales and Transformations, 189
Tarule, J., 119
Tavistock Clinic, 124, 191
Taylor, C, 190, 191
teaching technique, 119–20
for reflecting process, 174–75
Techniques of Family Therapy, 34
tempathy, 242–44
temporal orientation, 92
termination of therapy, 109
therapeutic relationship, xvi
boundary concept, 225
in communal practice, 270–71
conceptual evolution, xi decentering, 208, 226
embracement in, 251–55
Fifth Province concept, 126–27
Goolishian technique, 142
guidelines, 121
implications of constructivist theory, 122, 123, 124
in narrative therapy, 226
not-knowing stance, 139–40, 146
paradoxical messages and, 75
reflecting team approach, 150–51, 152
Rogers’, 181
tempathy concept, 242–44
therapist neutrality, 98, 178
transparency in, 14
Thompson, L., 186, 191
Tiefer, L., xvii
Timeless Way of Building, The, 216
Todorov, T., 161
Tomm, K., 115, 125, 265,266
Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, 131
University of Massachusetts, 114–16
Urry, A., 240
Varela, F., 122, 123
Vico, G., 239–40
Vigilante, J., 37
Vivian-Byrne, K., 159
von Foerster, H., xi, 122, 123, 137
von Glasersfeld, E., xi, 122, 123, 134, 137
Vygotsky, L., 159, 223
Wachterhauser, B. R., 140
Wagner, J., 162
Wald, G., 116
Walker, G., 53, 73, 76, 119
Walsh, F., xvii Walters, M., xvii, 119
Watzlawick, R, xi, xv, 8, 10, 99, 123, 135, 147, 241
Weakland, J., xv, 11, 99
Weiner-Davis, M., xvi Welch, S., 269
Wells, L., 274
Whitaker, C., 136–37
White, M., 49, 58, 102, 125, 130, 155, 181, 185, 198, 200, 208, 234, 249–50, 256, 266, 271, 276
theory of psychotherapy, xvii—xviii, 223–27
therapeutic technique, 219–20, 227–30, 236–37
Whorf, B. L., 133
Whose Bar/Bat Mitzvah Is This Anyway?, 182
Wiener, N., 123
Wilson, J., 191
Wiltwyck School for Boys, 19
Wittgenstein, L., xii, 102, 123, 130–32, 225–26, 256, 264
world building, 216–17
worrybox, 240–41
Wright, L., 125