Systems-Centered Theory and Barbara Dick's `Transformation at Boundary Zones'

Abstract

Barbara Dick's paper is reviewed from the framework of a Theory of Living Human Systems and the hypotheses that are generated for Systems-centered* practice. From this framework, it appears that the driving force towards transforming from Flight into Fight at the boundary zones are restrained by an unmodified repetition compulsion which governs the dynamics of both the members and the group-as-a-whole. Thus the group communication pattern serves as a restraining rather than a driving force to individual change.