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Struggling with the Impotence Impasse: Absurdity and Acting‐In
Author(s) -
Keith David V.,
Whitaker Carl A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1978.tb00498.x
Subject(s) - absurdity , face (sociological concept) , psychology , orientation (vector space) , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , social psychology , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , social science , geometry , mathematics
Psychotherapists are forced to face the troubling fact of their ineffectiveness. Part of the sense of uselessness arises out of going face‐to‐ face with family systems. Another part is based in the therapist's theoretical orientation. Two methods for breaking out of this double paralysis are described. Both methods are illustrated with clinical examples.