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An Insight Approach to Marital Therapy
Author(s) -
Wile Daniel B.
Publication year - 1979
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.1752-0606.1979.tb01280.x
Subject(s) - marital therapy , negotiation , family therapy , psychotherapist , action (physics) , psychology , family systems , computer science , developmental psychology , sociology , social science , physics , quantum mechanics
The trend in marital therapy has traditionally been away from insight approaches and toward action‐oriented methods, such as manipulating the couple system or teaching partners to negotiate. This paper presents a form of insight therapy based upon systems theory and suggests that this orientation has much to offer. The first part describes general categories of relationship problems with which a couples therapist must deal. The second part takes each of these problem types and suggests how a therapist with the present systems‐interpretive approach might proceed. The goal is a shared understanding by partners of their marital system.