For this book, Lynn Hoffman has not only compiled her writing for the last ten years, but she has written her own commentary about the personal and intellectual journey which led her from one paper to the next. The papers themselves read like a chronicle of the major ideas of the past ten years, but her commentary sheds a new light on the process of learning. It enables the reader to understand the way one woman has listened to the voices of a changing environment, and listened to the changes in herself in order to expand her thinking and her practice as a therapist.
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Part memoir, part text, this collection of Hoffman's writing willprovide practitioners and psycho-historians trying to decipher and understand the cultural contributions of family therapy with their own version of the Rosetta Stone. Exchanging Voices offers readers a map of key concepts and theories that will guide our thinking and practices into the 21st century. Although a completely seperate effort, this book is a kind of sequel to family therapy's other flagship (also authored by Hoffman), Foundations of Family Therapy. In Foundations of Family Therapy Hoffman presented all the major developments and types of practice that have taken place in the profession in the last half century (e.g., systems thinking, cybernetics, structural family therapy, etc.). In Exchanging Voices she points out what I've come to think of as the "cracks in the foundation" that have resulted in our seeking new voices and more collaborative models of practice that put the voices of our clients before the voices of our theories. Ironically, driving this shift in thought and approach to the work are some very complex thinking and erudite concepts that fall under tent terms with names like narrative, constructivism, social contstructivism, and social constructionsim. An alternative title for this volume could be Postmodernism: A Biography. Hoffman unpacks the history of the ideas and events that brought postmodern thinking and concepts into the therapy arena. Documenting its migration from philosophy, biology, literary critisism, cultural anthropology, and other disciplines Hoffman provides the best interpretation and commentary available in print on the ideas of such heady thinkers as Foucault, Bateson, and Maturana and Varela. I was as an assistant intstructor for a course taught by physicist Herb Bernstein at Hampshire College called New Ways Of Knowing: Reconstructive Knowledge In The Physical And Social Sciences. Students unanimously voted Hoffman's book the most helpful resource we provided them on the topic of postmodernism. Balancing this intellectual adventure in Wonderland or down, what Hoffman calls, the "Rabbit Hole," is a close personal account of the effect these ideas have had on Hoffman's own practice and relationships with her clients. It is this personal touch (each paper is punctuated with a short autobiographical essay by the author) that makes this book unique. In spite of the wealth and breadth of information passed on, the reader is not overwhelmed-- far from it. After putting this book down you will feel like you've spent an afternoon sitting at your kitchen table laughing, crying, telling stories, and exchanging voices with one of the most brilliant thinkers in our field, and maybe our time.
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