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Human systems as linguistic systems: preliminary and evolving ideas about the implications for clinical theory.
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The therapy system is called a problem-organizing, problem-dis-solving system distinguished by those who are "in language" about a problem, rather than by arbitrary and predetermined concepts of social organization.Abstract:
From our earliest practice of family therapy at medical schools, private family therapy institutes, and public agencies, our work with difficult populations that do not respond to current treatment technologies has reminded us of the inadequacies of our theoretical descriptions and the limitations of our expertise. This work has influenced our current, evolving clinical theory as we move from thinking of human systems as social systems defined by social organization (role and structure) to thinking of them as distinguished on the basis of linguistic and communicative markers. Hence, for us, the social unit we work with in therapy is a linguistic system distinguished by those who are "in language" about a problem, rather than by arbitrary and predetermined concepts of social organization. We call the therapy system a problem-organizing, problem-dis-solving system.read more
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
TL;DR: The authors argued that the questions about truth posed by Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and modern epistemologists and philosophers of language simply cannot be answered and were, in any case, irrelevant to serious social and cultural inquiry.
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Toward a theory of schizophrenia
TL;DR: The theory of schizophrenia is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types as discussed by the authors, and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the double bind, where no matter what a person does, he "can't win".