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THE USE OF HISTORY IN FAMILY THERAPY: A BRIEF REJOINDER TO SLUZKI *
Author(s) -
Jordan John R.
Publication year - 1982
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.1752-0606.1982.tb01465.x
Subject(s) - psychodynamics , family therapy , psychotherapist , psychology , family history , psychodynamic psychotherapy , medicine , radiology
The use of history by psychodynamically oriented family therapists is often misunderstood. In place of a traditional “lifting of repression” paradigm, contemporary psychodynamic family clinicians emphasize intervening in the transmission of emotional patterning over generations in families. This model has both diagnostic and therapeutic utility for family therapists. While differences exist between this model and “systems” approaches, it is argued that integration of the two is both possible and desirable.