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- Title
SUBTLE SPOUSAL SABOTAGE OF MARITAL THERAPY.
- Authors
Mitchell, Christina E.
- Abstract
Couples who come for counseling often present verbal reports which though perhaps unpremeditated, subtly sabotage efforts to improve their lives either individually or relationally. Evidence of a lack of energy invested in the problematic marriage signals to the therapist a task different from quelling the more typical exchange of accusations and blame. A search of couple similarity in a lack of awareness of feelings with a consequent failure to be assertive reduces the tendency to mutually blame. Permission for and instruction in taking personal responsibility for individual beliefs and feelings while recognizing individual and marital needs and rights provides the therapist and couple with specific remedial and growth-producing tasks that are likely to either revitalize the current relationship or prepare the couple for one that is more satisfying in the future.
- Subjects
COUPLES therapy; MARRIED people; COUPLES counseling; MARITAL communication; MARITAL conflict; INTERPERSONAL conflict; MARRIAGE; INTERPERSONAL relations; INTERPERSONAL communication
- Publication
Family Therapy: The Journal of the California Graduate School of Family Psychology, 1993, Vol 20, Issue 3, p223
- ISSN
0091-6544
- Publication type
Article