Paradox as Epistemological Jump
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Family Process
- Vol. 21 (1) , 85-90
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.1982.00085.x
Abstract
Recent articles on paradoxical interventions tend to view them as something given by a therapist to a patient, thus unintentionally adopting a unidirectional view of causality and an outmoded epistemology. It is postulated that change takes place in the context of a patient-therapist relationship and that when that relationship becomes paradoxical it becomes more difficult for the patient to view himself as a reified "thing." Paradox effects change, then, by altering the meaning of experience and modifying epistemological assumptions.Keywords
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