| Aesthetics of Change Revised Edition Contributor(s): Keeney, Bradford P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1572308303 ISBN-13: 9781572308305 Publisher: Guilford Publications OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2002 Annotation: 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 casue 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Couples & Family - Psychology | Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| Series: Guilford Family Therapy |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.34" W x 8.98" (0.73 lbs) 217 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |