Self and self-care for systemic practice

Notes on aesthetics

Abstract

The history of family therapy, systemic-relational, has a foundational myth centered on the organization of the system and the communication circuits in interaction, patterns, disregarding initially the self and the singular subject. This principle was corrected and updated from heterogeneous theoretical considerations mainly based on the support of language as an ontological axis. From the cybernetic metaphor to the narrative, a paradigm shift and a new interest in the self. In this multiple and irreducible process, the concept “care of the self”, examined by Michel Foucault, could serve to strengthen self-valorization and as a guide for systemic practice.