CFT 412 Lecture 3: Class 3: April 9

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Counseling Psychology and Human Services
• Course: CFT 412
• Professor: Emily Johnson

Document Summary

Gregory bateson (1940) developed general system theory. Way to study and think about families functioning as organized units, rather than just a group of individuals. Von bertalanffy (1960"s): simple machines, jet engines, amoebas, human brain. The idea that an organized group of parts forms a complex whole. That is more than the sum of its parts. There are no individuals in the world, only fragments of families . Challenges role of scapegoat in a family. The behavior of every individual within the family is related to and dependent upon the behavior of all the others. All behavior is communication and therefore influences and is influenced by. Watzlawick, beavin, & jackson, p. 134, 1967.