What Is ‘Talking Therapy’And What Conditions Can It Treat?
The term ‘talking therapy’ refers not to one specific therapy but to a category of therapies. As the phrase strongly implies, ‘talking therapies’ involve a client talking to a therapist with the aim of ameliorating their particular psychological difficulty (e.g. depression, anger, addiction, eating disorders, phobias, childhood trauma, relationship problems and … Read the rest
FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY was developed by the American psychiatrist, Murray Bowen (1913-1990). The theory proposes that :
a) The family acts as a highly complex system
b) This system is made up of family members who are emotionally intertwined
c) The ‘units’ of the system (i.e. the emotionally intertwined family members) interact in highly complex ways… Read the rest
‘The person [in the family] who gets diagnosed is part of a wider network of extremely disturbed and disturbing patterns of communication’
R.D. Laing
It has been theorized (originally in the 1950s as part of the Bateson Project, led by Gregory Bateson), that in many dysfunctional families an individual within the family is, largely unconsciously, assigned the role … Read the rest
