Week 4 Reflection Paper
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Psychodynamic Models
• The Role of Theory in Family Therapy
• The Contributions of Freud
• Adler and Sullivan
Psychodynamic Models
Classical Psychoanalytic Theory • Drives
• Infant sexuality
• Past influencing the present
• Transference/Countertransference
• Resistance
• Interpretation
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Psychodynamic Models
• Early Approaches to Integrating Psychodynamic Approaches to Family Therapy
• Ackerman’s Foundational Approach
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Psychodynamic Models
• Object Relations • Freud’s use of the term “object.”
• Melanie Klein
• British Middle School (schizoid, splitting, introjects, projective identification)
• Winnicott (holding environment)
• Framo and Family of Origin Therapy
• Scharff and Scharff
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Psychodynamic Models
• Self-Psychology • Kohut
• Narcissistic personality disorders
• Selfobjects
• Mirroring
Psychodynamic Models
• Intersubjective Psychoanalysis • Emphasis on relationships
• Intersubjective field (or matrix)
• Organizing principles
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Psychodynamic Models
• Relational Psychoanalysis • One-person versus two-person psychology
• Mutual impact of external, interpersonal, or social relations, internal relations among persons, varied self-states, and object relations
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Psychodynamic Models
• Attachment Theory • Bowlby and Ainsworth
• Attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant)
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Transgenerational Models
• Bowen Family Systems Theory • His work with schizophrenia
• Family emotional system
• The family’s place in nature as a living system (Natural Systems Theory)
• Distance and closeness
• Symbiosis/enmeshment
Transgenerational Models
• Eight Interlocking Theoretical Concepts • Differentiation of Self
• Triangles
• Nuclear Family Emotional Systems
• Family Projection Process
• Emotional Cutoff
• Multigenerational transmission process
• Sibling Position
• Societal Regression
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Transgenerational Models
• Evaluation Interview
• The Genogram
• Therapeutic Goals of Bowenian Theory
• Back Home Visits
• Family Therapist as Coach
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Transgenerational Models
• Contextual Therapy (Nagy) • Relational ethics
• The family ledger
• Invisible loyalty
• Legacies, debts, and entitlements
• Therapeutic goals
• Ethics and the family