Fort Worth, TX 76105
By Wendel Ray, PhD
During the 1950s and 1960s first in the work of Gregory Bateson's Palo Alto Team (Bateson, Don Jackson, John Weakland, Jay Haley, & William Fry) and continuing at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) under the Leadership of Don D. Jackson, MD, the paradigmatic shift that is Communication theory based System Therapy launched the fields of family and later brief therapy. Using rare film, audio recordings transcripts and photos from Bateson Team meetings will be reintroduced participants. Fundamental concepts of communication theory, such as the Double Bind and Family Homeostasis, a nonnormative-nonpathological orientation, simple and higher-order cybernetics, intentional shift of verb tense from “to be” to “to seem” and other tenets of communication theory will be outlined. How this interrelated set of constructs form the principal epistemological foundation for all current Systemic and Interaction Focused Brief Therapies will be discussed, with emphasis on the relevance of communication / Interaction / cybernetic view to effective brief therapy.
Dr. Ray will perform a live session on the day of this presentation.
If paying by check, please do not mail the check and instead, simply bring the day of the workshop, made payable to Texas Wesleyan University.
By Wendel Ray, PhD
During the 1950s and 1960s first in the work of Gregory Bateson's Palo Alto Team (Bateson, Don Jackson, John Weakland, Jay Haley, & William Fry) and continuing at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) under the Leadership of Don D. Jackson, MD, the paradigmatic shift that is Communication theory based System Therapy launched the fields of family and later brief therapy. Using rare film, audio recordings transcripts and photos from Bateson Team meetings will be reintroduced participants. Fundamental concepts of communication theory, such as the Double Bind and Family Homeostasis, a nonnormative-nonpathological orientation, simple and higher-order cybernetics, intentional shift of verb tense from “to be” to “to seem” and other tenets of communication theory will be outlined. How this interrelated set of constructs form the principal epistemological foundation for all current Systemic and Interaction Focused Brief Therapies will be discussed, with emphasis on the relevance of communication / Interaction / cybernetic view to effective brief therapy.
Dr. Ray will perform a live session on the day of this presentation.
If paying by check, please do not mail the check and instead, simply bring the day of the workshop, made payable to Texas Wesleyan University.