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Houses are a Necessary Illusion: Uncovering Family Process Through Asking Families to Draw a Plan of their Homes

Houses are a Necessary Illusion: Uncovering Family Process Through Asking Families to Draw a Plan... The way families organise their living space is an indicator of family relationships. The physical shape and organisation of houses, flats and dwellings of all kinds are not ‘unchanging natural phenomena’, they are historical, cultural, economic and family constructions. Therapists, like families, ‘do not see that they do not see’ (von Foerster, 1994). They are partly ‘blind’. This becomes apparent when a therapist asks a family to draw the plan of their house. The therapeutic task illuminates the organisation of family bonds, and provides insight into the causes of family suffering. A clinical example is given. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
2006 Australian Association of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/j.1467-8438.2006.tb00686.x
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Abstract

The way families organise their living space is an indicator of family relationships. The physical shape and organisation of houses, flats and dwellings of all kinds are not ‘unchanging natural phenomena’, they are historical, cultural, economic and family constructions. Therapists, like families, ‘do not see that they do not see’ (von Foerster, 1994). They are partly ‘blind’. This becomes apparent when a therapist asks a family to draw the plan of their house. The therapeutic task illuminates the organisation of family bonds, and provides insight into the causes of family suffering. A clinical example is given.

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family TherapyWiley

Published: Mar 1, 2006

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