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| Preface | |
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| The Systemic Framework | |
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| Two Different Worldviews | |
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| The Framework of Individual Psychology | |
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| The Framework of Systemic Family Therapy | |
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| Basic Concepts of Systems Theory and Cybernetics | |
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| Family Therapy or Relationship Therapy? | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Historical Perspective | |
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| Planting the Seeds: The 1940s | |
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| Cybernetics | |
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| Development of Interdisciplinary Approaches | |
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| Gregory Bateson | |
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| Putting Down Roots: The 1950s | |
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| Bateson (Continued) | |
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| The Double-Bind Hypothesis | |
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| Nathan Ackerman | |
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| Murray Bowen | |
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| Carl Whitaker | |
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| Theodore Lidz | |
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| Lyman Wynne | |
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| Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy | |
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| John Elderkin Bell | |
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| Christian F. Midelfort | |
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| Overview of the 1950s | |
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| The Plant Begins to Bud: The 1960s | |
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| Paradigm Shift | |
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| MRI | |
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| Salvador Minuchin | |
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| Other Developments | |
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| Blossom Time: The 1970s | |
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| Psychodynamic Approaches | |
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| Natural Systems Theory | |
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| Experiential Approaches | |
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| Structural Approaches | |
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| Strategic Approaches | |
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| Communication Approaches | |
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| Behavioral Approaches | |
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| Gregory Bateson | |
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| Connecting and Integrating: The 1980s | |
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| Other Voices | |
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| The Limits of History | |
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| Controversy, Conflict, and Beyond: The 1990s | |
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| The Feminist Critique | |
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| Family Therapy and Family Medicine | |
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| Integration and Metaframeworks | |
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| Managed Care | |
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| The Twenty-First Century: Future Considerations and Concerns | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Paradigmatic Shift of Systems Theory | |
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| A Cybernetic Epistemology | |
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| Recursion | |
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| Feedback | |
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| Morphostasis/Morphogenesis | |
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| Rules and Boundaries | |
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| Openness and Closedness | |
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| Entropy/Negentropy | |
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| Equifinality/Equipotentiality | |
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| Communication and Information Processing | |
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| Relationship and Wholeness | |
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| Goals and Purposes | |
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| Cybernetics of Cybernetics | |
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| Wholeness and Self-Reference | |
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| Openness and Closedness | |
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| Autopoiesis | |
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| Structural Determinism | |
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| Structural Coupling and Nonpurposeful Drift | |
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| Epistemology of Participation | |
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| Reality as a Multiverse | |
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| Summary | |
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| Postmodernism and Family Therapy | |
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| Postmodernism in Historical Perspective | |
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| Constructivism and Social Constructionism | |
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| Deconstruction and the Role of Language | |
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| The Role of the Individual | |
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| The Debates | |
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| First-Order versus Second-Order Therapy | |
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| Postmodernism and Cybernetics | |
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| Self-Referential Inconsistencies and Other Challenges | |
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| The Role of the Family | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Family: Process, Development, and Context | |
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| Process Dimensions | |
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| Developmental Frameworks | |
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| Contextual Issues | |
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| Structural Variations | |
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| Cultural Variations | |
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| Other Diversity Issues | |
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| Ecological Considerations | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Practice of Family Therapy | |
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| Psychodynamic Approaches | |
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| Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Object Relations Family Therapy | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Natural Systems Theory | |
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| Murray Bowen | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Experiential Approaches | |
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| Carl Whitaker | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Walter Kempler | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| The Structural Approach | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Structure | |
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| Subsystems | |
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| Boundaries | |
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| The Family over Time | |
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| Structural Maps of the Family | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Goals of Structural Therapy | |
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| The Process of Change | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Communication Approaches | |
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| Early Researchers | |
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| Don D. Jackson | |
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| John H. Weakland | |
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| Paul Watzlawick | |
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| Review of Early Research | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Virginia Satir | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Strategic Approaches and the Milan Influence | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Three Examples | |
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| Jay Haley | |
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| Cloe Madanes | |
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| Milan Systemic/Strategic Therapy | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Behavioral/Cognitive Approaches | |
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| Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Theory of Health/Normalcy | |
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| Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Traditional Behavioral Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies/Interventions | |
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| Four Examples | |
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| Behavioral Parent Training | |
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| Behavioral Marital Therapy | |
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| Functional Family Therapy | |
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| Conjoint Sex Therapy | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Postmodern Approaches | |
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| The Reflecting Team: Tom Andersen | |
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| Solution-Oriented Therapy: William O'Hanlon | |
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| Solution-Focused Therapy: Steve de Shazer | |
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| Externalization and Reauthoring Lives and Relationships: Michael White and David Epston | |
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| Therapeutic Conversations: Harlene Anderson and Harry Goolishian | |
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| Systemic Consistency | |
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| Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| The Systemic Practitioner | |
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| Family Assessment | |
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| History | |
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| Family Assessment and Classification--General Models | |
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| Family Assessment and Classification--Scientific Approaches | |
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| Family Assessment and Classification--Some Concerns | |
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| Systemic Analysis/Multidimensional Assessment | |
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| Therapeutic Intervention and Strategies | |
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| A Theory of Change | |
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| Reframing | |
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| Paradoxical Interventions | |
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| Problem Formation/Resolution | |
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| Stochastic Processes | |
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| Perturber versus Change Agent | |
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| Meaningful Noise | |
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| Language and Worldviews | |
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| Stability and Change | |
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| Information and Perturbation | |
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| The Theory of Change, Meaningful Noise, and the Postmodernist Perspective | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| AAMFT Code of Ethics | |
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| Ethics and Cybernetics of Cybernetics | |
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| Training and Supervision | |
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| Teaching and Learning the Systemic/Cybernetic Perspective | |
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| Supervision: Modalities, Myths, and Realities | |
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| Legal and Ethical Issues in Training and Supervision | |
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| Supervision from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective | |
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| Research in Family Therapy | |
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| Family Therapy Research in the Logical Positivist Tradition | |
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| From Efficacy Research to Progress Research | |
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| A Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodernist Consideration of Quantitative and Qualitative Research | |
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| A Systems View of Research | |
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| The New Physics | |
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| Implications for the Social Sciences | |
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| Ramifications of a Cybernetic Perspective | |
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| Epistemological Challenges: Thinking about Our Thinking | |
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| Mind and Nature/Stories | |
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| Conceptual Pathologies | |
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| Problems Exist "Out There" | |
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| The Map Is the Territory | |
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| Defining Differences in Isolation | |
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| Independence/Autonomy and Unilateral Control | |
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| You Can Do Just One Thing | |
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| Control Is Possible | |
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| We Can Just Observe | |
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| The Paradox of Being a Systemic Therapist | |
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| Contemporary Challenges | |
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| Teaching and Learning the Cybernetic Perspective | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |