their very sanity is being called into question. Each partner can find them self in a conflict Jody Davies (2003) described when each one feels that, feel sane I must forgo love and to feel “To loved, I must forgo my sanity.” The issue of is not only isolated to the perspectives of the partners, but perspectivalism includes the degree to which the therapist’s perspective culminates in her countertransference, and disjunctions” with her patients’ perspectives. Conjunctive “conjunctions entails the therapist’s subjective point of view being so correspondent with countertransference, that of one of the partners that it obstructs her being able to recognize, much less, assert meaningful difference. To invoke an English idiom, she becomes unable to the forest for the “see trees.” Meanwhile, involves there being such a degree of disjunctive countertransference difference between the therapist and one of the partner’s perspectives, that they are unable to find any common ground. In couple’s psychotherapy, it is normal for conjunctive and disjunctive to What is critical, however, is for the therapist to openly embrace it countertransference it occurs. Not doing so can lead to the partner in the position to threaten to when disjunctive terminate the therapy or to submit to becoming thereafter pathologically accommodating engaging in a kind of that leads the therapy into impasse. However, when the pseudo-treatment therapist openly acknowledges her biases, she begins to demonstrate how such controversy can be taken up in very constructive ways, that are not yet a part of the partners’ repertoire. The essence of Step Two then, is the cultivation of an atmosphere more committed to particularly with respect to the the curiosity, illumination of, collaboration of, and negotiation of, couple’s differing perspectives. A key part of the arch of the treatment approach, is symmetrical
their very sanity is being called into question. Each partner can find them self in a conflict Jody Davies (2003) described when each one feels that, “To feel sane I must forgo love and to feel loved, I must forgo my sanity.” The issue of perspectivalism is not only isolated to the perspectives of the partners, but includes the degree to which the therapist’s perspective culminates in her countertransference, “conjunctions and disjunctions” with her patients’ perspectives. Conjunctive countertransference, entails the therapist’s subjective point of view being so correspondent with that of one of the partners that it obstructs her being able to recognize, much less, assert meaningful difference. To invoke an English idiom, she becomes unable to “see the forest for the trees.” Meanwhile, disjunctive countertransference involves there being such a degree of difference between the therapist and one of the partner’s perspectives, that they are unable to find any common ground. In couple’s psychotherapy, it is normal for conjunctive and disjunctive countertransference to What is critical, however, is for the therapist to openly embrace it when it occurs. Not doing so can lead to the partner in the disjunctive position to threaten to terminate the therapy or to submit to becoming pathologically accommodating thereafter engaging in a kind of pseudo-treatment that leads the therapy into impasse. However, when the therapist openly acknowledges her biases, she begins to demonstrate how such controversy can be taken up in very constructive ways, that are not yet a part of the partners’ repertoire. The essence of Step Two then, is the cultivation of an atmosphere more committed to curiosity, particularly with respect to the illumination of, collaboration of, and negotiation of, the couple’s differing perspectives. A key part of the symmetrical arch of the treatment approach, is
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