Collision and collusion: From conflict to dialogue in couple therapy
Abstract
This article focuses on the description of a clinical process, carried out in co-therapy, about a couple of separated parents.
The initial request, made by the mother, is bound to a request of parental support, following the recent separation from the child’s father.
The introduction of meetings with the couple opens up the possibility of inscribing the themes of separation and conflict in the family stories of each one, giving them a renewed meaning.
The work produces, through a “narrative” dimension, a decrease in the conflictual aspects and the “creation” of a joint psychological space preparatory to the emergence of both the child and the parents as active subjects in the relationship. Notably, patients had the opportunity to confront themselves, for the first time, with a narration of their own biography. Thus, the overflowing conflict, against which it was impossible to erect a bulwark, found a “raison d'etre” if reinterpreted as the convergence of the family narratives that have passed through them.
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