Path of Least Resistance の感想
Robert Fritzの「Path of Least Resistance」を読んでいる最中のもやもや感、読んだ後の不快感は、私の読解力のせいなのかと思っていたが、Amazonのレビューを読んでいると、他にも多くの人がそう感じているようだ。中でも下記のレビューは私が感じていたことを非常に正確に描写していたので、後に振り返るときのために引用しておく。彼のIdentityを読んだら、このStructural Theoryがもっとよく理解できるかもしれない、という淡い期待を抱きつつ。。。Author is very proud of his own "structural" theory. Due to his obvious lack of education in disciplines like psychology, psyhotherapy, philosophy or theory of knowledge, he tries to explain everything with one simplistic metaphor: structure (which is everything - from building to desires to music) brings out results (=movements/changes of the structure, which is... everything, every change, from changing political systems, to growing a tree) thanks to path of least resistance (which is....yes, everything - any explaining ingredient staying behind the scene).His structural metaphor has everything what weak explaining constructs can have - it is too general, inconclusive, overall, all-encompassing, truistic, not moving any further in concrete understanding or practical testing. Yes, I agree, the methods he describes can be good. But not because of the "theory" (because his "theory" explains - anyway - everything), but because they are well proved methods used by many other coaches/therapists etc, used long before this book was published.The book is practically the same like writing the book based on groundbreaking theory "everything is fight between two polarities" or "everything has start and end". I am very disappointed, especially after having read many positive reviews here. Still, it pretends to be highly scientific with passages like "Structural conflict may be defined as two or more tension-resolution systems in which the points of resolution are mutually exclusive." Mein Gott! Although I have intellectual background, I like many books in the area of folk psychology, popular psychology, written in concise, down-to-earth, practical language. This is not the case. If you are interesting in creating/changing your circumstances, buy any good modern therapy (brief therapy, solution-focused therapy) of life management book. This is definitely not the way of my least resistance...