Using a metaperspective to clarify the structural-narrative debate in family therapy

Family Process

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-73

  Levy, Joshua ^a  

^a Chicago Center for Family Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Family Therapy; Micro Macro Theory; Narrative Model; Structural Model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

FAMILY; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NARRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 33645022768     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00080.x     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Alexander, J.C. (1987). Action and its environments. In J.C. Alexander, B. Giesen, R. Münch, & N.J. Smelser (Eds.), The micro-macro link (pp. 289-318). Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. Alexander, J.C. (1989). Structure and meaning: Rethinking classical sociology. New York: Columbia University Press.
3. Alexander, J.C. (1995). Fin de siècle social theory: Relativism, reduction, and the problem of reason. London: Verso.
4. Alexander, J.C., & Giesen, B. (1987). From reduction to linkage: The long view of the micro-macro debate. In J.C. Alexander, B. Giesen, R. Münch, & N.J. Smelser (Eds.), The micro-macro link (pp. 1-42). Berkeley: University of California Press.
5. Alexander, J.C., Giesen, B., Münch, R., & Smelser, N.J. (Eds.). (1987). The micro-macro link. Berkeley: University of California Press.
6. Anderson, H. (1999). Reimagining family therapy: Reflections on Minuchin's invisible family. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 25, 1-8.
7. Bernstein, R.J. (1983). Beyond objectivism and relativism: Science, hermeneutics, and praxis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
8. Blumer, H. (1969). Symbolic interactionism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
9. Brodbeck, M. (Ed.). (1968). Readings in the philosophy of the social sciences. New York: Macmillan.
10. Christensen, A., Jacobson, N.S., & Babcock, J.C. (1995). Integrative behavioral couple therapy. In N.S. Jacobson & A.S. Gurman (Eds.), Clinical handbook of couple therapy (pp. 31-64). New York: Guilford Press.
11. Collins, R. (1988). The micro contribution to macro sociology. Sociological Theory, 6, 242-253.
12. Combs, G., & Freedman, J. (1998). Tellings and retellings. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 24, 405-408.
13. Denzin, N.K. (1992). Symbolic interactionism and cultural studies: The politics of interpretation. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
14. Derrida, J. (1978). Writing and difference (A. Bass, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
15. Durkheim, E. (1951). Suicide: A study in sociology (J. Spaulding & G. Simpson, Trans.). New York: Free Press. (Original work published 1897)
16. Fine, G.A., & Kleinman, S. (1986). Interpreting the sociological classics: Can there be a "true" meaning of Mead? Symbolic Interaction, 9, 129-146.
17. Foucault, M. (1980). Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon.
18. Fraenkel, P. (1995). The nomothetic-ideographic debate in family therapy. Family Process, 34, 113-121.
19. Freedman, J., & Combs, G. (1996). Narrative therapy: The social construction of preferred realities. New York: Norton.
20. Geertz, C. (1973). The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books.
21. Gellner, E. (1968). Holism versus individualism. In M. Brodbeck (Ed.), Readings in the philosophy of the social sciences (pp. 254-268). New York: Macmillan.
22. Gergen, K.J. (1994). Realities and relationships: Soundings in social construction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
23. Giddens, A. (1987). Social theory and modern sociology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
24. Giddens, A. (1991). Structuration theory: Past, present, and future. In C.G.A. Bryant & D. Jary (Eds.), Giddens' theory of structuration: A critical appreciation (pp. 201-221). London: Routledge.
25. Goldner, V. (1988). Generation and gender: Normative and covert hierarchies. Family Process, 27, 17-31.
26. Greenberg, J.R., & Mitchell, S.A. (1983). Object relations in psychoanalytic theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
27. Habermas, J. (1984). Reason and the rationalization of society (Vol. 1). Theory of communicative action. Boston: Beacon Press.
28. Haferkamp, H. (1987). Complexity and behavior structure: Planned associations and creation of structure. In J.C. Alexander, B. Giesen, R. Münch, & N.J. Smelser (Eds.), The micro-macro link (pp. 177-192). Berkeley: University of California Press.
29. Halfpenny, P. (1982). Positivism and sociology: Explaining social life. London: George Allen & Unwin.
30. Hannan, M., & Freeman, J. (1989). Organizational ecology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
31. Hartmann, H. (1958). Ego psychology and the problem of adaptation. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
32. Homans, G. (1974). Social behavior: Its elementary forms. New York: Harcourt Brace.
33. Huber, J. (Ed.). (1991). Macro-micro linkages in sociology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
34. Keeney, B.P. (1983). Aesthetics of change. New York: Guilford Press.
35. Kincaid, H. (1996). Philosophical foundations of the social sciences: Analyzing controversies in social research. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
36. Klein, M. (1959). Envy and gratitude and other works. London: Delacorte Press.
37. Knorr-Cetina, K., & Cicourel, A.V. (Eds.). (1981). Advances in social theory and methodology: Toward an integration of micro- and macro-sociologies. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
38. Koestler, A., & Smythies, J.R. (1969). Beyond reductionism: New perspectives in the life sciences. New York: Macmillan.
39. Kühn, T. (1962). The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
40. Kurzweil, E. (1987). Psychoanalysis as the macro-micro link. In J.C. Alexander, B. Giesen, R. Münch, & N.J. Smelser (Eds.), The micro-macro link (pp. 237-254). Berkeley: University of California Press.
41. Marx, K. (1983). The portable Karl Marx: Selected, translated in part, and with an introduction by Eugene Kamenka (E. Kamenka, Ed.). New York: Penguin Books. (Original work published 1867)
42. Maturana, H.R., & Varela, F.J. (1980). Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living. Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel.
43. McGoldrick, M. (Ed.). (1998). Re-visioning family therapy: Race, culture, and gender in clinical practice. New York: Guilford Press.
44. McPhail, C., & Rexroat, C. (1979). Mead vs. Blumer: The divergent methodological perspectives of social behaviorism and symbolic interactionism. American Sociological Review, 44, 449-467.
45. Minuchin, P., Colapinto, J., & Minuchin, S. (1998). Working with families of the poor. New York: Guilford Press.
46. Minuchin, S. (1974). Families and family therapy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
47. Minuchin, S. (1998). Where is the family in narrative family therapy? Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 24, 397-403.
48. Minuchin, S. (1999). Retelling, reimagining, and re-searching: A continuing conversation. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 25, 9-14.
49. Minuchin, S., Anderson, H., Doherty, W., & Anderson, C. (Speakers). (1998). Whatever happened to family therapy? (Cassette Recording No. 718-516). Washington, DC: Family Therapy Network Symposium.
50. Minuchin, S., & Fishman, H.C. (1981). Family therapy techniques. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
51. Minuchin, S., & White, M. (Speakers). (2003). The evolving therapist (Cassette Recording No. 713-523). Washington, DC: Psychotherapy Networker Symposium.
52. Münch, R., & Smelser, N.J. (1987). Relating the micro and macro. In J.C. Alexander, B. Giesen, R. Münch, & N.J. Smelser (Eds.), The micro-macro link (pp. 356-388). Berkeley: University of California Press.
53. Parsons, T. (1937). The structure of social action. New York: Free Press.
54. Parsons, T., & Bales, R.F. (1955). Family, socialization, and interaction process. New York: Free Press.
55. Rabinow, P., & Sullivan, W.M. (1987). Interpretive social science: A second look (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
56. Ritzer, G. (1988). On levels and "intellectual amnesia." Sociological Theory, 6, 226-231.
57. Ritzer, G. (Ed.). (1990). Frontiers of social theory: The new syntheses. New York: Columbia University Press.
58. Rosenwald, G.C., & Ochberg, R.L. (1992). Introduction: Life stories, cultural politics, and self-understanding. In G.C. Rosenwald & R.L. Ochberg (Eds.) Storied lives: The cultural politics of self-understanding (pp. 1-18). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
59. Schwartz, R.C. (1999). Narrative therapy expands and contracts family therapy's horizons. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 25, 263-267.
60. Seymour-Smith, C. (1986). Individualism. In Dictionary of anthropology (p. 149). Boston: G.K. Hall.
61. Skinner, B.F. (1971). Beyond freedom and dignity. New York: Knopf.
62. Sluzki, C. (1998). In search of the lost family: A footnote to Minuchin's essay. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 24, 415-417.
63. Suppe, F. (1989). The semantic conception of theories and scientific realism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
64. Tomm, K. (1987). Interventive interviewing: Part II. Reflexive questioning as a means to enable self-healing. Family Process, 26, 167-183.
65. Tomm, K. (1988). Interventive interviewing: Part III. Intending to ask lineal, circular, strategic, or reflexive questions? Family Process, 27, 1-15.
66. Tomm, K. (1998). A question of perspective. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 24, 409-413.
67. Toumela, R. (1990). Discussion: Methodological individualism and explanation. Philosophy of Science, 57, 96-103.
68. Walsh, F. (Ed.). (2003). Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
69. Watkins, J.W.N. (1957). Methodological individualism and social tendencies. In M. Brodbeck (Ed.), Readings in the philosophy of the social sciences (pp. 269-279). New York: Macmillan.
70. White, M. (1995). Re-authoring lives: Interviews and essays. Adelaide, Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
71. Wiley, N. (1988). The micro-macro problem in social theory. Sociological Theory, 6, 254-261.
72. Wippler, R., & Lindenberg, S. (1987). Collective phenomena and rational choice. In J.C. Alexander, B. Giesen, R. Münch, & N.J. Smelser (Eds.) The micro-macro link (pp. 135-152). Berkeley: University of California Press.