No More Heroes? Punk and Family Therapy After the Cancellation of the Future

In this paper I will tell three parallel stories. The story of punk music, the story of family therapy and small parts of my own story. Both punk and family therapy were social movements built on resistance to commodification, both radical in their perspectives. The Stranglers and Palazzoli 999 and Minuchin. Minor Threat (Green Day and functional family therapy haha). They came in waves/both were international/both were authentically intellectual. Both died in the 1990s as we entered an age of anxiety, memory and ghosts. We are haunted by lost models that could have been; a lost Deleuzian model. I will argue for a new wave of family therapy built on a punk mentality. We need to go back to being minortorians, embracing irrelevance, storm the margins, especially now. We have become no better than The Offspring. But new heroes are available: post-human, emergent, subversive, anti-essentialist.