Struggling with the Impotence Impasse: Absurdity and Acting‐In
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
- Vol. 4 (1) , 69-78
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.1978.tb00498.x
Abstract
Psychotherapists are forced to face the troubling fact of their ineffectiveness. Part of the sense of uselessness arises out of going face‐to‐ face with family systems. Another part is based in the therapist's theoretical orientation. Two methods for breaking out of this double paralysis are described. Both methods are illustrated with clinical examples.Keywords
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