Intersubjectivity and narrative structure in family therapy
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v10i10.930Keywords:
family therapists, psychotherapy, systemic model,Abstract
Family therapist tend to accept the systemic model as a fundamental and unquestionable reality, forgetting that it is only a useful metaphor to adressing the family's interrelatedness. In the process, they lose sight of another reality, i.e., that family members are also separate individuals with their own center of initiative and responsability. As a result, family therapists focus on relationships but tend to disregard personal experience. The aim of this article is to make a further contribution to the theory of family therapy from a phenomenological and hermeneutic perspective, suggesting that the human family is co-constituted as an inter subjective community and that the family members' experiences and actions are inherently structured in a way analogous to narrative structures.
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