Family therapy and civilization and its discontents

Lee, Bonnie

Family therapy and civilization and its discontents

dc.contributor.author	Lee, Bonnie
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-19T02:34:31Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-19T02:34:31Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	Open access article
dc.description.abstract	Myth or history, the origin of civilization was ascribed in the Hebrew scriptures to the first couple, Adam and Eve, and to the intergenerational saga of their descendants. Civilization has been a concern of psychoanalysts since the time of Freud and Jung, the fathers of depth psychology. In their mature years, they applied their theories and observations of human nature to the tumultuous events of the First and Second World Wars. Taking their cues, the author utilizes key concepts and insights from family therapy on couple conflict as a lens for analyzing international relations, with the goal for finding their parallels on the dynamics of strife and turmoil in our time and with the premise that the world could be seen as the human family writ large. The article explores how principles for couple analysis — respecting differences, boundaries, history, recognizing stress and transitions and congruent communication — can be transposed to international relations.
dc.description.peer-review	No
dc.identifier.citation	Lee, B. K. (2023). Family therapy and its discontents. Comparative Civilizations Review, 88(88), Article 12. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol88/iss88/12
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10133/6658
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Health Sciences
dc.publisher.institution	University of Lethbridge
dc.publisher.url	https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol88/iss88/12
dc.subject	Family therapy
dc.subject	Couple analysis
dc.subject	Couple conflict
dc.subject	War
dc.subject	International relations
dc.subject.lcsh	Family psychotherapy
dc.title	Family therapy and civilization and its discontents
dc.type	Article