My first exposure to the term "intervention" was in the work of Maria
Salvini. Some of her stories of "intervening" into the tightly-bound
family dynamics of adolescent anorexics are hair-raising.
An important component of the concept, it seems to me, is that an inter-
vention is risky. At best it might reach the level of a Zen koan: an
incomprehensible, almost nonsensical assertion or demand, backed up by
incontrovertible authority: it _must_ be solved.
I wonder whether the concept, in the form we're beginning to see it,
here, hasn't been diluted somewhat. There _must_ be some useful
distinction between "intervention" and plain old "outside initiative".
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Regards
Jim Michmerhuizen jamzen@world.std.com
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