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The systemic-cybernetic framework in Family Therapy provides a framework for understanding people and families in context. The text-divided into three sections including The Systemic Framework, The Practice of Family Therapy, and The Systemic Practitioner-includes historical information, current developments, and ongoing debates. Book jacket.

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• Preface(p. xiii)
• Part I The Systemic Framework(p. 1)
• 1 Two Different Worldviews(p. 3)
• The Framework of Individual Psychology(p. 3)
• The Framework of Systemic Family Therapy(p. 8)
• Basic Concepts of Systems Theory and Cybernetics(p. 10)
• Family Therapy or Relationship Therapy?(p. 12)
• Summary(p. 13)
• 2 The Historical Perspective(p. 14)
• Planting the Seeds: The 1940s(p. 15)
• Cybernetics(p. 15)
• Development of Interdisciplinary Approaches(p. 16)
• Gregory Bateson(p. 17)
• Putting Down Roots: The 1950s(p. 19)
• Bateson (Continued)(p. 19)
• The Double-Bind Hypothesis(p. 20)
• Nathan Ackerman(p. 22)
• Murray Bowen(p. 24)
• Carl Whitaker(p. 24)
• Theodore Lidz(p. 25)
• Lyman Wynne(p. 27)
• Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy(p. 28)
• John Elderkin Bell(p. 29)
• Christian F. Midelfort(p. 29)
• Overview of the 1950s(p. 30)
• The Plant Begins to Bud: The 1960s(p. 31)
• Paradigm Shift(p. 31)
• MRI(p. 33)
• Salvador Minuchin(p. 34)
• Other Developments(p. 35)
• Blossom Time: The 1970s(p. 35)
• Psychodynamic Approaches(p. 35)
• Natural Systems Theory(p. 36)
• Experiential Approaches(p. 36)
• Structural Approaches(p. 37)
• Strategic Approaches(p. 38)
• Communication Approaches(p. 39)
• Behavioral Approaches(p. 40)
• Gregory Bateson(p. 40)
• Connecting and Integrating: The 1980s(p. 41)
• Other Voices(p. 41)
• The Limits of History(p. 46)
• Controversy, Conflict, and Beyond: The 1990s(p. 46)
• The Feminist Critique(p. 47)
• Family Therapy and Family Medicine(p. 49)
• Integration and Metaframeworks(p. 50)
• Managed Care(p. 51)
• The Twenty-First Century: Continuing Concerns and Emerging Trends(p. 52)
• Summary(p. 53)
• 3 The Paradigmatic Shift of Systems Theory(p. 64)
• A Cybernetic Epistemology(p. 64)
• Recursion(p. 65)
• Feedback(p. 66)
• Morphostasis/Morphogenesis(p. 68)
• Rules and Boundaries(p. 69)
• Openness and Closedness(p. 70)
• Entropy/Negentropy(p. 71)
• Equifinality/Equipotentiality(p. 71)
• Communication and Information Processing(p. 72)
• Relationship and Wholeness(p. 75)
• Goals and Purposes(p. 77)
• Cybernetics of Cybernetics(p. 78)
• Wholeness and Self-Reference(p. 79)
• Openness and Closedness(p. 79)
• Autopoiesis(p. 80)
• Structural Determinism(p. 81)
• Structural Coupling and Nonpurposeful Drift(p. 82)
• Epistemology of Participation(p. 83)
• Reality as a Multiverse(p. 84)
• Summary(p. 85)
• 4 Postmodernism and Family Therapy(p. 88)
• Postmodernism in Historical Perspective(p. 90)
• Constructivism and Social Constructionism(p. 91)
• Deconstruction and the Role of Language(p. 92)
• The Role of the Individual(p. 94)
• The Debates(p. 95)
• First-Order versus Second-Order Therapy(p. 95)
• Postmodernism and Cybernetics(p. 97)
• Self-Referential Inconsistencies and Other Challenges(p. 98)
• The Role of the Family(p. 101)
• Summary(p. 102)
• 5 The Family: Process, Development, and Context(p. 104)
• Process Dimensions(p. 105)
• Developmental Frameworks(p. 110)
• Contextual Issues(p. 116)
• Structural Variations(p. 116)
• Cultural Variations(p. 120)
• Other Diversity Issues(p. 122)
• Ecological Considerations(p. 123)
• Summary(p. 125)
• Part II The Practice of Family Therapy(p. 127)
• 6 Psychodynamic Approaches(p. 131)
• Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy(p. 132)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 133)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 136)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 136)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 138)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 139)
• Object Relations Family Therapy(p. 139)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 140)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 142)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 142)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 143)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 144)
• 7 Natural Systems Theory(p. 145)
• Murray Bowen(p. 145)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 146)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 150)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 151)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 156)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 156)
• 8 Experiential Approaches(p. 158)
• Carl Whitaker(p. 159)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 160)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 161)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 162)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 164)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 165)
• Walter Kempler(p. 166)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 167)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 169)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 170)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 171)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 172)
• 9 The Structural Approach(p. 173)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 174)
• Structure(p. 174)
• Subsystems(p. 175)
• Boundaries(p. 177)
• The Family over Time(p. 180)
• Structural Maps of the Family(p. 180)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 183)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 185)
• Goals of Structural Therapy(p. 186)
• The Process of Change(p. 187)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 191)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 192)
• 10 Communication Approaches(p. 193)
• Early Researchers(p. 194)
• Don D. Jackson(p. 194)
• John H. Weakland(p. 195)
• Paul Watzlawick(p. 196)
• Review of Early Research(p. 198)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 198)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 198)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 199)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 199)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 200)
• Virginia Satir(p. 200)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 201)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 202)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 203)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 205)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 205)
• 11 Strategic Approaches and the Milan Influence(p. 206)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 208)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 213)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 214)
• Three Examples(p. 217)
• Jay Haley(p. 217)
• Cloe Madanes(p. 222)
• Milan Systemic/Strategic Therapy(p. 223)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 231)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 232)
• 12 Behavioral/Cognitive Approaches(p. 233)
• Basic Concepts/Theoretical Constructs(p. 237)
• Definitions(p. 237)
• Theory of Health/Normalcy(p. 239)
• Therapeutic Strategies/Interventions(p. 240)
• Traditional Behavioral Strategies/Interventions(p. 240)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies/Interventions(p. 241)
• Four Examples(p. 242)
• Behavioral Parent Training(p. 243)
• Behavioral Marital Therapy(p. 246)
• Functional Family Therapy(p. 251)
• Conjoint Sex Therapy(p. 251)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 254)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 255)
• 13 Postmodern Approaches(p. 256)
• The Reflecting Team: Tom Andersen(p. 257)
• Solution-Oriented Therapy: William O'Hanlon(p. 260)
• Solution-Focused Therapy: Steve de Shazer(p. 262)
• Externalization and Reauthoring Lives and Relationships: Michael White and David Epston(p. 267)
• Therapeutic Conversations: Harlene Anderson and Harry Goolishian(p. 271)
• Systemic Consistency(p. 272)
• Questions and Reflections from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 274)
• Part III The Systemic Practitioner(p. 275)
• 14 Family Assessment(p. 277)
• History(p. 277)
• Family Assessment and Classification-General Models(p. 280)
• Family Assessment and Classification-Scientific Approaches(p. 282)
• Family Assessment and Classification-Some Concerns(p. 288)
• Systemic Analysis/Multidimensional Assessment(p. 289)
• 15 Therapeutic Intervention and Strategies(p. 293)
• A Theory of Change(p. 293)
• Reframing(p. 297)
• Paradoxical Interventions(p. 298)
• Problem Formation/Resolution(p. 298)
• Stochastic Processes(p. 299)
• Perturber versus Change Agent(p. 299)
• Meaningful Noise(p. 300)
• Language and Worldviews(p. 300)
• Stability and Change(p. 301)
• Information and Perturbation(p. 302)
• The Theory of Change, Meaningful Noise, and the Postmodernist Perspective(p. 303)
• Ethical Issues(p. 304)
• AAMFT Code of Ethics(p. 305)
• Ethics and Cybernetics of Cybernetics(p. 314)
• 16 Training and Supervision(p. 319)
• Teaching and Learning the Systemic/Cybernetic Perspective(p. 319)
• Supervision: Modalities, Myths, and Realities(p. 321)
• Legal and Ethical Issues in Training and Supervision(p. 322)
• Supervision from a Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodern Perspective(p. 326)
• 17 Research in Family Therapy(p. 330)
• Family Therapy Research in the Logical Positivist Tradition(p. 330)
• From Efficacy Research to Progress Research(p. 335)
• A Second-Order Cybernetics/Postmodernist Consideration of Quantitative and Qualitative Research(p. 336)
• A Systems View of Research(p. 340)
• The New Physics(p. 343)
• Implications for the Social Sciences(p. 344)
• Ramifications of a Cybernetic Perspective(p. 347)
• 18 Epistemological Challenges: Thinking About Our Thinking(p. 351)
• Mind and Nature/Stories(p. 355)
• Conceptual Pathologies(p. 358)
• Problems Exist "Out There"(p. 358)
• The Map Is the Territory(p. 360)
• Defining Differences in Isolation(p. 361)
• Independence/Autonomy and Unilateral Control(p. 362)
• You Can Do Just One Thing(p. 363)
• Control Is Possible(p. 364)
• We Can Just Observe(p. 366)
• The Paradox of Being a Systemic Therapist(p. 368)
• Continuing Challenges(p. 373)
• Teaching and Learning the Cybernetic Perspective(p. 376)
• In Conclusion(p. 379)