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(2016) Poststructural and narrative thinking in family therapy, Dordrecht, Springer.
Toward an aesthetics of engagement
pp. 61-81
In this chapter, I describe some principle ideas informing and shaping of a therapeutic practice I refer to as aesthetics of engagement with struggling others. An aesthetics of engagement within the therapeutic context consists of multiple influences that continue to provide grounding and a framework for practice, yet a practice remaining open to additional inspirations. Accordingly, in this chapter, I describe philosophical, theological, and theoretical perspectives that have contributed toward this practice. The perspectives described in this chapter represent a synthesis of influences and inspirations that have evolved over many decades. As such, the tapestry informing an aesthetics of engagement is not intended to be at all prescriptive nor closed, as I believe it to remain a practice that continues to remain open to potential influences and encounters with the other, and to continue to evolve alongside news of difference (Bateson 1972).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31490-7_5
Full citation:
(2016)., Toward an aesthetics of engagement, in V. Dickerson (ed.), Poststructural and narrative thinking in family therapy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 61-81.
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