Aesthetics of Change

by Bradford P. Keeney

Book Overview

The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family therapy, Bradford P. Keeney demonstrates that conventional epistemology, in which casue and effect have a linear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898620430
• ISBN13: 9780898620436
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A great introduction to cybernetic thought!

Want to learn about cybernetics and systems thinking? Start right here with Keeney's Aesthetics of Change. With a couple of read throughs and some thought, you will be well on your way to comprehending an interesting subject. AFter reading this book try some of Bateson's work!

A breakthrough psychotherapy book

Keeney's unique understanding of cybernetics and human systems is presented in this scholarly work. Here, Keeney attempts to bring the wisdom of Gregory Bateson to working with families and other interactional systems, and it remains a classic in the field of family therapy. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to work outside the normal skull-bound explanations of human experience -- although it may be a mental stretch, it is well worth the resulting wisdom that results from working with both the pragmatic and the aesthetic ("the patterns that connect"). Frank Thomas, PhD