Index

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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