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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © 1994 Australian Association of Family Therapy
- ISSN
- 0814-723X
- eISSN
- 1467-8438
- DOI
- 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1994.tb01013.x
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Abstract
This paper is a chronicle of miracle narratives in family therapy. It suggests that change is a manifold and often comes unexpectedly from life, which places it outside the control of the theory and technology of family therapy. A miracle is defined not in supernatural language, so much as a co‐incidence of events that fall together' to form a narrative for change. As poetic metaphor, miracles evoke in the family therapist an aesthetics of wonder and a ‘holy curiosity’. The miracle metaphor is illustrated by several examples from family therapy practice, and is discussed in relation to recent deconstructive theory.
Journal
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley
Published: Dec 1, 1994