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Relational Family Therapy as an Aid Toward Resolving the Trauma of Sexual Abuse in Childhood in the Process of Separation in the Couple Relationship
Author(s) -
Repič Slavič Tanja,
Gostečnik Christian
Publication year - 2017
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/jmft.12212
Subject(s) - sexual abuse , interpersonal communication , psychology , perspective (graphical) , psychotherapist , family therapy , interpersonal relationship , therapeutic relationship , sex therapy , child abuse , dynamics (music) , developmental psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , social psychology , medicine , psychoanalysis , sexual dysfunction , medical emergency , pedagogy , artificial intelligence , computer science
Relational family therapy ( RFT ) is a psycho‐organic therapeutic approach that combines intrapsychic dynamics with interpersonal mechanisms and a systemic perspective. This integrative model is based on the assumption that the repetitive patterns of relationships in early childhood repeat in adulthood. It often happens that a sexually abused individual will later unconsciously be attracted to someone with whom they will relive the abusive atmosphere and dynamics from childhood. The purpose of this contribution is to present the RFT approach for dealing with sexual abuse. We will present a case study with individual segments from therapy with a woman, who previously had been sexually abused and was separated from her partner.