title: Constructing realities: an art of lenses.
abstract: In this essay I attempt to map the dimensions of my own move away from a cybernetic-biologic analogy for "family-systems" therapy. Central to this shift has been social construction theory augmented by two other lenses: a second-order view, and a sensitivity to gender. These conceptual tools have helped me to distance myself from my previous therapeutic stance and to envision a very different model, one that is less strategic and instrumental, and more collaborative and unconcealed.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hoffman
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003491:Cybernetics; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012380:Role; D013598:Systems Theory