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This paper presents clinical data from a research study designed to examine the relation between alcohol consumption and interactional behavior in “alcoholic couples.” The central innovative feature of the study was the simultaneous admission to an inpatient setting of up to three couples, one or both members of which was alcoholic. The in‐patient experience was part of an intensive, six‐week, multiple‐couples, group‐therapy program.During hospitalization couples were encouraged to reproduce as closely as possible their usual drinking patterns and interactional behavior. Therapists utilized observations of interactional behavior during intoxication and sobriety to formulate central interactional and psychological issues for each couple.The authors utilized these same observations to develop the interactional model of alcoholism in families that is presented in detail in this paper. This model is an extension of earlier work delimiting an interactional theory of alcoholism based on general systems concepts.Two extensive case histories are presented to illustrate both theoretical issues and the treatm

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00001.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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A technique called the “Interperception Matrix” was devised to investigate interpersonal perception in eight families in which addicted offspring maintained close parental ties. The addict families were compared with eight matched control families. Several differences were found between the two types of families. In addict families: (a) addicts, their fathers, and their mothers all held the addicts in low regard; (b) addicts were described as very different from their parents; (c) parents and addicts disagreed more in their perception of the addicts; (d) there was a consensus that the addicts' major flaws were passivity and dependence; and (e) the addicts' mothers described themselves as less agreeable and more passive. Addict families and control families were similar in their descriptions of an ideal for the offspring and in generally favorable descriptions of both parents.These results extend and partially validate clinical observations that social perception in addict families serves to perpetuate opiate addiction by undermining addicts' self‐esteem. These data, in conjunction with new understandings emerging from the addiction literature, support an approach to addiction therapy based on reframing family perce

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00017.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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This review proposes a method for classifying theories of family therapy in terms of the ideal categories from which they derive. Establishing the relationship between a family‐system theory and a more general world view facilitates the identification of unique aspects of theory and lays the groundwork for a theoretically consistent integration of therapy and researc

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00029.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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Most students of family process and family therapy practitioners have failed to pay sufficient attention to the importance of the physical home environment. The thesis of this paper is that the physical home environment may facilitate or constrain inter‐ and intrafamily interaction, role relationships, values, and identities. The paper presents a comprehensive review of the status of current knowledge concerning family interaction and the home environment. We propose a conceptual framework to facilitate discussion of the nature of man‐environment relationships and focus attention on those aspects of the physical environment that have been noted as profoundly influencing family life. These are illustrated by three brief vignettes drawn from case studies of families in their home environm

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a family counseling program on the following variables: (a) parents' family satisfaction, perceived integration, and family congruence; (b) the number of positive and negative responses communicated among family members; and (c) an undesirable behavior exhibited by one child in the family. The sample consisted of 14 families in the experimental condition and 11 families in the control condition.Mother and one child had responsibility for teaching other family members the principles taught during the multiple‐family category sessions.The findings indicated: (a) parents receiving family counseling increased significantly their family‐satisfaction and perceived‐integration scores as compared to the parents not receiving counseling; (b) families receiving counseling increased significantly the number of positive responses among them compared with the control families; (c) children receiving counseling decreased significantly the frequency of exhibiting a specific undesirable behavior; and (d) no significant differences were found between the groups of families in parents' family‐congruence scores and in the number of negative responses communicated among family

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00067.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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Structural family therapy techniques for treating families with a parental divorce in which a child is symptomatic are described. The family configurations considered are: mother, child, and maternal grandparents; overprotective mother and child; helpless and mildly neglectful mother; father; new family formation; and couples who divorce and marry new spouses.

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00075.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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The purpose of the present article is to supplement the considerable body of clinical literature that focuses on hysterical behavior from an individual perspective. Based on findings from a total sample of 16 couples, this paper accomplishes this task in a threefold manner. First, the characteristic type of individual who selects and is selected by the hysterical individual as a life partner is described. Second, the type of relationship these two individuals typically develop, which promotes and reinforces severely maladaptive behavior on the part of both is delineated. Third, a number of specific recommendations regarding psychotherapy for this type of relationship are proffered.

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00085.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper presents a family‐therapy technique — time‐extended family interviewing — in which the therapist extends the traditional one‐hour interview to three to seven hours, by plan, at a particular point in the life of a case and for a particular purpose. Extended sessions promote movement in a case for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, the use of such sessions highlights the dimension of time as an important element of good casework

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00097.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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A case report of father‐daughter incest is presented that illustrates the way in which overt incest can function as a multi‐determined familial defense against separation and loss. The case is further distinguished by: (a) multiple incest and (b) family therapy — an approach infrequently described in the literature on this problem. The authors have adopted the psychodynamic view that incest expresses the collective psychopathology of all the family members as well as their common adaptational capacities. Specifically, we have attempted to demonstrate that separation anxiety was a shared dread in this family and that incest defended against this painful pro

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00105.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00117.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY