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In a unique comparative ethnography of two family therapy programs, Gubrium deftly shows how differing organizational perceptions make visible the social construction of domestic disorder. Contrasting images of home life—one viewing domestic order as a system of authority, the other as a configuration of emotional bonds—serve to highlight different senses of the family as being out of control and to recommend alternate forms of intervention. The idea that the reality of home life and domestic troubles are embedded in organizational activities and institutional images is an important commentary on the understanding of domestic life and the postmodern family. Out of Control provides stimulating reading for professionals and students in clinical psychology, family therapy, family studies, sociology, and qualitative methods.
The Rationalization of Feelings
The Rationalization of Feelings
At Fairview, feelings are believed to reference the depths of experience. When an adolescent druggie complains bitterly that his father favors an older brother, therapist Dave Shindell questions how the adolescent really feels underneath it all. The assumption is that beneath the complaint lies a domain of possibly contrasting emotional facts. When an addictive gambler shouts that his family does not understand him and thinks he is a loser, ADU nurse Bev Simpson asks him whether, in his heart of hearts, he does not feel otherwise. It is taken for granted that beyond the yelling and resentful comments is a domain of more authentic responses.
Some emotions are deeper than others and more genuine. Beneath fleeting emotions about such ...
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