Weingarten K
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Family Institute of Cambridge, MA, USA.
Fam Process. 2000 Winter;39(4):389-402. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2000.39401.x.
This article is based on a keynote address I gave in South Africa at the Eighth International Conference of The South African Association of Marital and Family Therapy. The phenomenon of witnessing is explored in a number of contexts, and a distinction is made between witnessing with and without awareness, and from an empowered or a disempowered position. I propose that the African philosophy of ubuntu--the emphasis of which is on the self in community, in contrast to the Western emphasis on the individual--may be a better fit for my view of hope, which, I propose, is not just a feeling but, rather, something people do.
本文基于我在南非举行的南非婚姻与家庭治疗协会第八次国际会议上发表的主题演讲。见证这一现象在多种情境下得到了探讨，并且区分了有意识和无意识的见证，以及从赋权或无权的立场进行的见证。我认为，非洲的乌班图哲学——其重点在于社群中的自我，与西方对个人的强调形成对比——可能更符合我对希望的看法，我认为，希望不仅仅是一种感觉，更是人们所做的事情。
