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Parent‐child conflict resolved
Author(s) -
Rosner Joseph
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198605)42:3<448::aid-jclp2270420307>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - psychology , forgetting , settlement (finance) , debt , conflict resolution , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , cognitive psychology , law , finance , political science , economics , payment , world wide web , computer science
This paper discusses the methods used to settle the emotional debt of love and nurturance withheld by the parent and owed to the child. The child, as an adult in a therapy setting, is responsible for the resolution of the conflict created by the parent‐child relationship. The framework for each settlement of the debt is basically similar. Patient and therapist are allied together as trusting partners so that the patient can experience a close relationship with another person—something he or she may have missed with his or her own parents as a child. The patient then must divert his or her attention away from the unhappy past, thus forgetting it, and concentrate on the positive, fulfilling aspects of the present.