Family of Origin: The View from the Parents' Side |
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| Authors: | SHIRLEY BRAVERMAN M.S.W. |
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| Affiliation: | Faculty, Family Therapy Training Program, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital and McGill University School of Social Work, 4333 Chemin de la Cote Ste. Catherine, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E3, Canada. |
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| Abstract: | Families in which there is increased marital conflict after a relatively stable long-term marriage are a puzzle to the clinician. The author's thesis, based on experience with a group of middle-aged couples whose children's differentiation occurred after having been in individual therapy themselves, is that the differentiated child carried special psychic functions for one parent. The differentiation was experienced as tantamount to ego loss, and that parent's attempt to deal with the inner conflict resulted in a marital crisis. |
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