ABSTRACT

This article serves as an introduction to Karen Barad’s agential realism, a feminist new materialist theory, employing her theoretical tenets to explore how this framework matters for marriage and family therapists, particularly regarding the treatment of trauma and traumatic stress. Entangling Barad’s agential realism with systems theory, this article considers how marriage and family therapists intra-act with traumatized clients to produce different becomings. In particular, this article explores how power and oppression are performed and reinforced to perpetuate traumatic stress, and puts forth recommendations for how this theoretical orientation can aid marriage and family therapists in embodying a feminist and just therapeutic approach for understanding, diagnosing, and treating traumatic stress. Employing a case example of the incarceration of Japanese Americans following Pearl Harbor, traumatic stress is conceptualized as a material-discursive phenomenon, opening possibilities for thinking trauma and healing differently. Clinical intra-ventions are put forth in contrast to therapeutic interventions, underscoring re-membering as a re-turn to the material in the work of systemic, feminist-informed trauma treatments.

摘要

本文介绍了凯伦·巴拉德的代理现实主义，一种女权主义新唯物主义理论，运用她的理论原则来探索这个框架对婚姻和家庭治疗师的重要性，特别是在创伤和创伤性压力的治疗方面。本文将巴拉德的代理现实主义与系统理论相结合，考虑婚姻和家庭治疗师如何与受创伤的客户进行内部行动以产生不同的形成。特别是，本文探讨了权力和压迫如何被执行和加强以使创伤性压力永久存在，并就这种理论取向如何帮助婚姻和家庭治疗师体现女权主义和公正的治疗方法来理解、诊断和治疗创伤性压力提出建议。压力。以珍珠港事件后日裔美国人被监禁的案例为例，创伤性压力被概念化为一种物质话语现象，为思考创伤和康复治疗开辟了可能性。临床内部发明与治疗干预形成对比，强调重新记忆是在系统性、女权主义知情的创伤治疗工作中回归材料。