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Launched in 1990, Human
Systems, The international quarterly journal of systemic consultation and
management, has grown steadily winning the respect and support of practitioners
and researchers alike.
Its coverage on systemic theory and practice in the fields of therapy and organisational consulting gives it a unique standing. It is the only journal developing a systemic coverage of this growing and diverse field by promoting a dialogue of differences between the covers of a single publication. The aims and scope for Human Systems In the last decade systemic consultation has continued to consolidate and develop its theoretical base while extending its applications to increasingly diverse fields. Developing from family therapy in clinical settings, systems consultants have progressively widened their scope to consult all kinds of state, professional, commercial and industrial organisations and subsystems within them. With this development has come a need for a forum for all who use systemic consultation in their working lives where they can foster, share and co-ordinate theoretical and practical knowledge. HUMAN SYSTEMS exists to fill this need. You will find that HUMAN SYSTEMS provides a stimulating and reflexive mix of practice and theory reporting leading-edge developments in family therapy and systemic consultation in organisations. In doing so it plays a lively role in communicating and disseminating those developments. It is the purpose of HUMAN SYSTEMS TO:
Join in this vital dialogue; subscribe and stay in touch with the latest developments in your field. Editors Peter Stratton, Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre, University of Leeds, UKPhilippa Seligman, Private practice, Cardiff, UK Editorial Board Helga Hanks, Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre, University of Leeds, UKPeter Lang, The KCC Foundation, London, UK Martin Little, , London, UKEditorial Advisory Board Harlene Anderson Tom Andersen Luigi Boscolo John Burnham Nollaig Byrne Vernon Cronen Laura Fruggeri Ben Furman Lynn Hoffman Elsa Jones Phil Kearney Elspeth McAdam Imelda McCarthy Sheila McNamee W Barnett Pearce Peggy Penn Umberta Telfener Allan Holmgren Valeria Ugazio Eduardo Villar Michael White
HIGHLIGHTS FROM PAST PAPERS "... A critical, therapeutic discourse should reserve judgement, suspend reality, bracket -off right, wrong and truth and not adjudicatory...and yet it must and does operate in the context of a world of regularity, of rules and regulations, of inequity of power and actual physical force, of diverse moral orders and ways of life, and so it should be prudent and judicial, interventionist and intentional, capable of assigning responsibility in cases of violence, based on good judgement and critical because it is reflexively mindful of the potential confusions and paradoxes...". From constructivism to constructionism and doing critical therapy. Rozanne Leppington. Volume 2 Issue 2. "A family that becomes just a business has abandoned its 'familyness'... a business that becomes just a family may have increased its busyness but has abandoned its prospects." Extending systemic consultation from families to management. Gianfranco Cecchin and Peter Stratton. Volume 2 Issue 1. "Our definition that two parents are critical for child development has always been euphemism for a mother whi is perpetually on-call for everyone emotionally and physically and a distant money-providing father. Families with such a structure cannot help being problematic... not only because of the imbalance between father and mother in power and emotional roles... but also because this model ignores what seems crucial to the nurturance of families." Culture, class, race and gender. Monica McGoldrick. Volume 5 Issue 3-4."We consider that giving attention to power in the relationship between ourselves and our clients is a way of liberating the possibility for good work to go on. We work with them to have the freedom and the ability to ensure multiple stories. This empowers clients to learn about ways of living that go beyond the mere solving of particular individual problems." Stories, giving accounts and systemic descriptions. Peter Lang and Elspeth McAdam. Volume 6 Issue 2. A SELECTION OF OUR PUBLICATIONS... Edited by Peter Stratton Hearing the Voice of the Child was produced to mark the end of the United Nations "Year of the Child". There is no doubt that the children of the world need every help they can get to have their claim for concern and consideration heard. This voice of the child can sometimes be overlooked within family therapy. It is perhaps inevitable that therapists will find themselves sharing lifestage, contexts and prejudices more strongly with parents than with children. This double issue will become an invaluable sourcebook of current thinking and practice for all who work with children.Contributors include: Nollaig Bryne, Brian Cade, Viv Gross, Helga Hanks, Catherine Kavanagh, Penny Lewis, Elspeth McAdam and Peter Stratton. Changing Organisations: Clinicians as Agents of Change Edited by Alan Cooklin Most clinicians in the mental health and human relations fields began their professional lives with the task of understanding the inner world, or at least the distress, of individuals. What then leads such clinicians to believe they should or could generate positive change in institutions or organisation? If they do seek to achieve such changes, do they have the relevant skills, if so what are these skills, and how do they operate? Contributors include: Harlene Anderson, J. Paul Burney, David Campbell, Gianfranco Cecchin, Alan Cooklin, Suman Fernando and Sir Brian Wolfson Private Pain, Public Entertainment Edited by Sara Cobb Private Pain, Public Entertainment was fuelled by deep anxiety about the ethics of our attraction to the pain of others, the ethics of witnessing pain. Whether its "rubbernecking" a car accident beside the freeway, gossiping with friends about Bill Clinton’s sexual affairs or laying flowers at Kensington Palace we are participating in the circulation of private pain to public places. We all participate anytime we move to witness personal suffering. What are the ethics of this "witnessing" that is involved in making pain public? Contributors include: Sara Cobb, Lynn Cornerfield, Sonya E. Delgardo, Imelda McCarthy, Sheila McNamee, Wayne Martin Mellinger, Marcello Pakman and Shoshana Simons. Human Systems Subscription Order form Back Issues Order Form
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