Clinical Sociometry to Define Space in Family Systems

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  • ANTONY WILLIAMS Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/3rh3rs65

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Sociometry

Abstract

If living systems incorporate only such new information as is consonant with their existing structures, there is room, the author contends, for sociometry to be classified as an "approved provider" of non-alien information. In this article, the author focuses on (a) the themes of construction of meaning, intensity, time, and space; (b) outlines forms of sociometry to track people's construction of events in time (their stories) by the use of spatial correlates; and (c) suggests that because time and space inescapably constitute human existence, people's lives are shaped, even constituted, through interpretation of experience over time. The nature of their stories, or constructs- in-time, determine real directions in their lives and relationships. Examples are given throughout from family therapy.

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2025-03-14

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Vol. 47 No. 3 (1994): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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