title: Dialectical metatheory in family therapy.
abstract: This paper addresses the controversy in family therapy over basic philosophical issues in terms of a historical opposition between demonstrative and dialectical metatheories. It argues that advances in family therapy are indicative of the growing prominence of dialectical forms of understanding in the social sciences. Several family therapy concepts are explored as representative of the dialectical categories of motion, form, relationship, and transformation.
mesh_terms: D005190:Family; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009038:Motion; D010684:Philosophy; D011582:Psychological Theory