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"What is involved, in practice, coming to a judgement? The Norwegian
family therapist, Tom Andersen, characterized himself as “a wanderer and
worrier,” he was constantly reflecting on his ways of ‘going on’, on his
own practice, to further develop and refine them. Each new way came to
him, he said, on reaching a ‘crossroads’, a point when he felt unable to
continue any longer in the same way. But once he stopped doing what he
had come to see as ethically wrong, he found, he said, that the “alternatives
popped up almost by themselves” (Anderson/Jensen, 2007: 159).
What I want to discuss is the fact that, while we can say that we can quite
self-consciously and deliberately decide not to do something (perhaps
never again) at a particular moment, in a new and particular situation we
cannot be said to decide at any particular instant in time, positively what
to do. New ways of acting cannot be planned; they have to emerge. As
Lehrer (2009) suggests, coming to act in a way that seems to be for the
best in a particular situation is not something we can decide upon simply
within ourselves – judgmental work, in which we go out bodily, to relate
ourselves imaginatively and feelingfully to various aspects of our current
circumstances, aspect-by-aspect, sequentially, over time, seems to be required.
It is what the nature of this imaginative judgmental work feels
like, looks like, and sounds like that I want to discuss in this paper." (author's abstract)
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