Help
for Families
I am a social worker and social
workers specialize in families. A family is an organic unit
just like other phenomena found in nature, like a cell or a
forest. In fact, even
when I see just one person from a family, I always regard the
entire family to be the
patient.
Brilliant family therapy theorist,
Murray Bowen
declared that though one person in a family system may
be the most vulnerable and be the symptom bearer (of say
schizophrenia), it is the entire family system which suffers
the disorder. And
it is precisely by following this line of reasoning that one
can declare that even if only one person in the system seeks
therapy, what is done to the one is done to the whole. When one person in a
family system calms down, s/he can calm down the entire
system. |
