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- Title
Beyond Bipolar Thinking: Patterns of Conflict as a Focus for Diagnosis and Intervention.
- Authors
SIMON, FRITZ B.
- Abstract
Most family typologies in the history of family therapy organized the observation according to bipolar scales. The implied assumption of such models is that the attribution of the one observational characteristic is inevitably bound to the negation of its opposite characteristic. This article presents a formal observational schema that has the possibility to grasp contradictory, conflicting characteristics. Using this schema, one can develop a clinically relevant family typology, making distinctions between different patterns of interaction by which conflicts and antagonistic tendencies in families are organized. Clinical observation and experience suggests that one can distinguish families with members with psychosomatic, manic-depressive, and schizophrenic symptoms by the way they overcome conflicts and ambivalence.
- Subjects
FAMILY psychotherapy; SCHEMA therapy; COGNITIVE therapy; FAMILY relations; INTERPERSONAL relations; FAMILY therapists
- Publication
Family Process, 1998, Vol 37, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.1998.00215.x