can be achieved in manners more wholesome and helpful to the partners than a life mired its own in the complementarity” of perpetual and submission” and perhaps eventual “split “dominance dissolution of their relationship. These three themes inform the entire organization of my relational psychoanalytic approach to couple’s psychotherapy. It is an approach outlined in Six Steps, though these are not in the traditional sense of a linear, hierarchical progression. Instead they are to be thought “steps” of as much like the Escher print in Appendix A, wherein one notices two disparate nonlinear, lines of Monks both ascending or descending four stair cases, though paradoxically, they always end up at the lowest (e.g. landing. The image of involves Escher’s artistic nonlinearity “first”) genius, a feat captured by the optical illusion. My concept of the steps” is presented in linear fashion mostly for organizational “six purposes while less for practicable ones. Elements of any of the Six Steps may at various times during the treatment, not necessarily in the same order. More to the point, however, the Six Steps do suggest an arch of the treatment which I will elaborate momentarily. The steps of the arch progress until the couple achieves some mastery of the problem that typically brought them into therapy. My experience however, is that once this problem has been satisfactorily addressed, new issues emerge that require cycling through the Six Steps again. This is why patients and therapists alike sometimes lament, all this work, “After it feels like we are back at One!” Of course, in a sense that is true, though not something to ‘Step fret. I encourage them that after they have worked through their focal complaint, it makes room for them to analyze other issues. However, once they have so mastered the model through its repetition of disparate (albeit connected) issue, they will be ready to terminate. I will speak more
its own can be achieved in manners more wholesome and helpful to the partners than a life mired in the “split complementarity” of perpetual “dominance and submission” and perhaps eventual dissolution of their relationship. These three themes inform the entire organization of my relational psychoanalytic approach to couple’s psychotherapy. It is an approach outlined in Six Steps, though these are not “steps” in the traditional sense of a linear, hierarchical progression. Instead they are to be thought of as nonlinear, much like the Escher print in Appendix A, wherein one notices two disparate lines of Monks both ascending or descending four stair cases, though paradoxically, they always end up at the lowest (e.g. “first”) landing. The image of nonlinearity involves Escher’s artistic genius, a feat captured by the optical illusion. My concept of the “six steps” is presented in linear fashion mostly for organizational purposes while less for practicable ones. Elements of any of the Six Steps may at various times during the treatment, not necessarily in the same order. More to the point, however, the Six Steps do suggest an arch of the treatment which I will elaborate momentarily. The steps of the arch progress until the couple achieves some mastery of the problem that typically brought them into therapy. My experience however, is that once this problem has been satisfactorily addressed, new issues emerge that require cycling through the Six Steps again. This is why patients and therapists alike sometimes lament, “After all this work, it feels like we are back at ‘Step One!” Of course, in a sense that is true, though not something to fret. I encourage them that after they have worked through their focal complaint, it makes room for them to analyze other issues. However, once they have so mastered the model through its repetition of disparate (albeit connected) issue, they will be ready to terminate. I will speak more
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