The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

https://focus.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/foc.4.2.306

Therapeutic Factors in Psychotherapy

The role of family homeostasis in Conjoint Family Therapy is reviewed and examined from the standpoint of the Sociocultural Systems framework as presented by Buckley. Sociocultural Systems concepts are presented, and an attempt is made to relate them to a view of the family. It is concluded that the concept of homeostasis by itself is insufficient as a basic explanatory principle for family systems and that it may limit both our expectations for families and our approaches to helping families. The concepts viability, positive feedback processes, morphogenesis, and “variety” are presented and emphasized as important for a more tenable conceptualization of the family system in our society today. An attempt is made to relate these concepts to some of the clinical family literature and to examine the implications of these concepts for mental health and educational approaches to the family.

Family Systems: Morphostasis and Morphogenesis, or “Is Homeostasis Enough?”

Group Therapist Self-Disclosure: An Evaluation By Clients.

(1972). Common Features of Psychotherapy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 34-40.

Frederick H. Stoller

Papers

Accelerated interaction: a time-limited approach based on the brief, intensive group.