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Marital Therapy — My Way

Marital Therapy — My Way Liz Roberts* My Way This paper is one of a series in which experienced therapists were invited to outline their approach to marital therapy - Editor. "My Way" of doing marital therapy? It is never boring. It is full of life force. People in sessions know that I am very present, in the fullest sense of the word. Very few would be able to predict my conduct and most would realise that once we have agreed to begin a process of therapy I am fully committed to helping them in any way I can (therapeutically) to assist them in making the changes they want to make. I find myself invigorated, challenged, absorbed and occasionally quite obsessed with figuring out the evolution of a problem or a symptom given its context. Concommitantly I try to figure out clients' personal constructs,ways to increase my therapeutic leverage and their amenability to change. This is all in the time space of one or two assessment sessions. Now, scanning my mind's eye, reviewing all the people with whom I am currently working I find myself struck by the extreme variance in the expression of my being. With some couples I am flamboyantly spontaneous, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 1989 Australian Association of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/j.1467-8438.1989.tb00774.x
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Abstract

Liz Roberts* My Way This paper is one of a series in which experienced therapists were invited to outline their approach to marital therapy - Editor. "My Way" of doing marital therapy? It is never boring. It is full of life force. People in sessions know that I am very present, in the fullest sense of the word. Very few would be able to predict my conduct and most would realise that once we have agreed to begin a process of therapy I am fully committed to helping them in any way I can (therapeutically) to assist them in making the changes they want to make. I find myself invigorated, challenged, absorbed and occasionally quite obsessed with figuring out the evolution of a problem or a symptom given its context. Concommitantly I try to figure out clients' personal constructs,ways to increase my therapeutic leverage and their amenability to change. This is all in the time space of one or two assessment sessions. Now, scanning my mind's eye, reviewing all the people with whom I am currently working I find myself struck by the extreme variance in the expression of my being. With some couples I am flamboyantly spontaneous,

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family TherapyWiley

Published: Dec 1, 1989

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