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‘I Thought We Came for Therapy!’: Autobiography Sessions in Couple Work
Author(s) -
Hoang Lě
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2005.tb00643.x
Subject(s) - biography , project commissioning , ethnic group , psychology , publishing , family therapy , work (physics) , sociology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , aesthetics , psychotherapist , art , art history , literature , engineering , mechanical engineering , anthropology
Each family builds up its own culture which is partially invisible to each of its members, and so I invite my couple clients to write their own autobiography as part of a move towards self‐differentiation. By emphasising difference in this way, I hope to allow my clients to feel OK about their discomfort, if any, with my ethnicity. I include vignettes to illustrate the process and client response.