Family Systems Theory (Deep Dive) (2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
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July 13, 2016
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's just me today. I thought I'd talk about systems theory today. What do you say? What do you say? |
| 0:05.4 | This is the podcast called Psychology in Seattle. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a professor and a licensed |
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| 0:40.2 | Also, you can like us on Facebook if you want to participate in our weekly Tuesday Tough or Bluff Games. I thought I would just |
| 0:47.5 | yammer at you about a few things that were on my mind today. For instance, I want to talk about systemic thinking. And some people are very aware of |
| 0:58.6 | what systemic thinking is in systems theory. And some people are not. It's a very complex theory. |
| 1:05.4 | And I often describe it to my students and supervisees as a paradigm shift. That's a cliched statement. But it really |
| 1:13.2 | took a long time for me to become accustomed to it. And it had to be explained to me multiple different |
| 1:19.7 | ways by multiple different people. And I had to read about it in multiple different places. |
| 1:24.5 | And I had to try it out in various different applications and over the span of the |
| 1:30.8 | last 20 years I feel like I sort of understand it. So I'm not going to be able to explain it fully |
| 1:37.2 | in this venue, but let me try. So there is a dichotomy sometimes discussed between linear and systemic. |
| 1:46.9 | So there's linear thinking and linear explanations and systemic explanations. |
| 1:54.6 | Hey, deserving listeners. |
| 1:56.2 | This is an old episode that we have re-released as a patron exclusive episode. |
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