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“Family rituals” and “family myths” are useful concepts for understanding some of the behavior of disturbed families and hence for planning therapeutic interventions. A case of a family of a schizophrenic patient is described in which a “counter‐ritual” involving onion‐peeling to induce tearing was invented. The intervention addressed the family's inappropriate laughter and denial of sadness and seemed to lead to therapeutic gains for the identified patient and the family.This counter‐ritual, as an indirect affect‐inducing experience, is analyzed from a variety of perspectives and a partial parallel is drawn to an Iranian cultural ritual.A suggestion is made that more light may be shed on the mechanisms and structures of myths and rituals in families by drawing on studies of myths and rituals in ethnography.“Counter‐ritual” is offered as a general concept for a type of active family intervention that involves inventing and employing rituals antithetical to pathological ones en

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00077.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

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Therapists traditionally view brothers and sisters as rivalrous and self‐seeking. Under carefully arranged conditions, however, siblings can learn to cooperate with each other to resolve important conflicts in family relationships.This case documents a dramatic change in the relationship between a 29‐year‐old woman and her father, the outcome of a three‐step therapeutic intervention in which sibling dynamics were selectively used by the psychotherapist. As part of her individual therapy, the therapist first aroused the woman's discontent with her status as the neglected “baby of the family.” Next, a series of meetings were held with the woman and her three sisters that permitted resolution of their previous anger and misunderstandings, thus helping them to become a more cohesive group of sisters. The third step brought the sisters, now as allies both of the identified patient and of the therapist, into a constructive confrontation with the parents. This resulted in lasting personal change for the identified patient and improved relationships throughout the en

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DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00085.x

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年代:1981

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Family therapists disagree over the utility of historical reconstruction for treatment. Following either a behavioral or a psychoanalytic paradigm, theorists insist that history is irrelevant or essential to the treatment process. This paper demonstrates how a variety of family therapy concepts were used in his historical research into the life of the family of William James, the American psychologist and philosopher (1842–1910). This is offered as evidence both that family theory has a contribution to make to the writing of history and that the historical process is important to family therapy. It is suggested that clinical actuality calls forth interventions within both paradigms, often by the same therapist with the same family. The alternatives need not be mutually exclusive, though theory‐building is clarified by talking as if the therapist were confronted by an either/or cho

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00097.x

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年代:1981

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In 1975 Helge Sølvberg and I published an exploratory paper in Family Process reporting on situation‐specific differences in communication efficiency in parental couples having and not having schizophrenic offspring. In the years since, a series of studies reproducing and extensively corroborating the findings from this study have been conducted in Oslo. The following is a brief note to inform the readers of Family Process about this subsequent work. A particular reason for doing so is the huge problem of the language barrier in scientific transnational communication. (Most of the papers, dissertations, and books prepared in connection with our projects appear in Norwegian, which is of course a “minority” language as regards the international scientific community in our field.) In the present note I have taken great care to give references to relevant Norwegian studies that are now available in E

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DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00109.x

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年代:1981

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DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.113_1.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.113_2.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.113_3.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.113_4.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.113_5.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.113_6.x

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