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Myths About "Not-Knowing"

In the 1970s, Harry Goolishian and I were inspired by the Mental Research Institute clinical theorists and the constructivist theorists to immerse ourselves in language and its relationship to therapy. We quickly found our way to the contemporary hermeneuticists, social constructionists, and postmodernists, and to philosophers and theorists such as Wittgenstein, Vygotsky, and Bakhtin, then to Gergen and Shotter. Our interest in language grew into a concentration on the notions of conversation and dialogue, particularly generating or transforming ones. Over time, the appeal and implications of these notions for conceptualizing and working with human systems influenced a dramatic ideological ...

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