Personal Authority in Family Experience via Termination of the Intergenerational Hierarchical Boundary. Part 3: Personal Authority Defined, and the Power of Play in the Change Process.

Analyzes present transgenerational family therapy theory and discusses the change process. Individuation-relational ethics is presented in a (Hegelian) dialectic with intimacy. Suggests that playfulness, including paradox and absurdity, is an effective intervention into the intense emotionality of intergenerational work. (Author)