The Age 30 Crisis and the 7-year-itch Berman, Ellen M; Miller, William R; Vines, Neville ...
Journal of sex & marital therapy,
19/9/1/, Letnik:
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The phenomenon of marital restlessness & tension after seven years of marriage is discussed as a manifestation of a stage of individual adult development: the age thirty transition. Data were ...gathered through questionnaires administered to clients of the Marriage Council of Philadelphia. Results revealed that couples in which one or both members were aged 27-32 (average length of marriage: seven years) applied for counseling at a rate almost double that of any other age group. The high level of marital dissatisfaction among this age group is seen as a reflection of the personal crisis experienced by those undergoing a period of life review. Modified HA.
Ego-dystonic homosexuality Lief, H I; Kaplan, H S
Journal of sex & marital therapy,
12/1986, Letnik:
12, Številka:
4
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The patient coming in with a dysphoria over his or her homosexual feelings, fantasies or behavior must be given the choice of working through the homophobia or the heterophobia. With the first ...choice, treatment is directed toward decreasing shame over the homosexual orientation and integrating the patient's social role and personal identity. If a move toward greater heterosexuality is chosen, techniques range from psychoanalysis to time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy to behavioral techniques. Behavioral techniques may involve in vitro or in vivo desensitization. Issues in selecting the appropriate form of therapy are sometimes subtle and complex, and ethical issues frequently beset the therapist. The patient must be kept fully informed of his or her options, and the choice and the goals of therapy must be arrived at by both patient and therapist.
The authors describe various methods of marital therapy in use today. Although absence of a unifying conceptual scheme in the past has hampered developments in this field, the increasing ...acknowledgment by psychiatrists of the important effect of the environmental system on thoughts, feelings, and behavior has facilitated a therapeutic approach stressing not only a person's intrapsychic conflicts but current environmental, family, and spouse-related phenomena. The authors discuss three dimensions of marital psychodynamics--power, intimacy, and marital boundary setting--and relate them to the marital life cycle and to four classifications of the marital relationship: 1) rules for defining power, 2) parental stage, 3) level of intimacy, and 4) personality style and psychiatric terminology. The paper includes a brief discussion of therapy techniques, sex counseling, the use of cotherapists, the future of marriage, and alternative lifestyles.
