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The aesthetic preference: overcoming the pragmatic error

L R Allman

    Family Process
    |March 1, 1982
    PubMed
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    Family therapists view individuals within interconnected contexts, emphasizing aesthetic principles like balance and unity in family systems. Therapeutic goals include enhancing personal and interpersonal flexibility and differentiation through understanding these aesthetic arrangements.

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    Area of Science:

    • Family Therapy
    • Systems Theory
    • Ecological Psychology

    Background:

    • Individuals exist within multiple interconnected contexts, including the family system.
    • Family systems, like natural systems, exhibit inherent aesthetic principles such as order, balance, and unity.
    • These principles guide the structure and dynamics of family interactions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the application of aesthetic principles in family therapy.
    • To enhance personal and interpersonal flexibility and differentiation within family systems.
    • To define the role of the family therapist as an artist seeking structural beauty and unity.

    Main Methods:

    • Therapeutic techniques focused on transforming connection patterns within families.
    • Utilizing an aesthetic process to foster flexibility and differentiation.

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  • Adopting an ecological systems epistemology for understanding mental life.

    • Main Results:

    • Therapeutic interventions aim to increase flexibility and differentiation.
    • Understanding aesthetic arrangements within family systems is key to therapist identity.
    • This approach aligns with a broader paradigmatic movement in ecological systems theory.

    Conclusions:

    • Family therapy is enhanced by recognizing and applying aesthetic principles.
    • The therapist's role involves an artistic pursuit of structural harmony and unity.
    • An ecological systems perspective informs the practice of family therapy, promoting growth and adaptation.