Abstract
Kenneth Gergen has made significant contributions to family therapy. This article highlights selected contributions and specifically
discusses his idea of therapy as relational recovery, including the importance he places on a client’s developing relational
skills that they can put into action in their everyday lives outside the therapy room. In response to this idea of therapy
as relational recovery, the article presents the concept of therapy as a dialogically-structured activity in which transformation
whether in meaning, understanding, thought or action is inevitable, inherent and unpredictable. Client feedback on after therapy
session transformation partially illustrates this concept.
discusses his idea of therapy as relational recovery, including the importance he places on a client’s developing relational
skills that they can put into action in their everyday lives outside the therapy room. In response to this idea of therapy
as relational recovery, the article presents the concept of therapy as a dialogically-structured activity in which transformation
whether in meaning, understanding, thought or action is inevitable, inherent and unpredictable. Client feedback on after therapy
session transformation partially illustrates this concept.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Reflections
- Pages 1-8
- DOI 10.1007/s12646-011-0121-y
- Authors
- Harlene Anderson, Houston Galveston Institute, 3316 Mount Vernon, Houston, TX 77006, USA
- Journal Psychological Studies
- Online ISSN 0974-9861
- Print ISSN 0033-2968