Shared obliviousness in family systems / Paul C. Rosenblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenblatt, Paul C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families.

Family psychotherapy.

System theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 181 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The modern family is inundated with information and no family can attend to it all; families must set priorities and remain oblivious to much. Obliviousness is the intriguing subject of Paul C. Rosenblatt's speculative and theoretical work. The hidden undersides of what families are aware of, know, and talk about are vast and complex, maintained at times with great effort, linked to important matters in the family and in society, necessary for family functioning but also, at times, a source of great difficulty. How are areas of obliviousness built up and maintained? How does a family overcome obliviousness that creates difficulty? Drawing on work in family systems, family therapy, whiteness and privilege, and social construction, among other research, this book is enlightening for all who work with, study, and care about the family.

Contents:

Shared obliviousness as a family systems phenomenon

Family system mechanisms for maintaining shared obliviousness

Family obliviousness to context

Obliviousness to matters within the family

Shared obliviousness and family decisions

Family system responses to threats to obliviousness

Obliviousness and family therapy

Researching shared family obliviousness

Shared obliviousness that is not quite shared or oblivious

The future of shared family obliviousness.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-178) and index.

ISBN:

9781438427416

1438427417

9781441618696

1441618694