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Systems theorists compare the family system to a mobile. What part of the mobile represents metacommunication? If you were constructing a mobile to model your family, how would you depict symmetrical and complementary relationships? |
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For decades, the United States and the former Soviet Union were engaged in a nuclear arms race. How does Watzlawick's axiom about the punctuation of communication sequences explain the belligerence of both nations? |
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Can you make up something your instructor might say that would place you in a double bind? Under what conditions would this be merely laughable rather than frustrating? |
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Read one of the letters printed in the "Ask Amy" or "Dear Abby" column of your daily newspaper. How could you reframe the situation the writer describes? |
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