Limits are therapy.

Bixler, Ray H.

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“…Ginott (1959Ginott ( , 1972 and Bixler (1949) claimed that limits are therapeutic in and of themselves. Maenchen (1984), from a classical Freudian perspective, and Katz (1992), from an Interpersonal one, both describe aggressive behavior that responded to interpretation only after it had been successfully limited by the therapist.…”

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You Can't Do That — Or Can You? Historical and Clinical Perspectives on Limit Setting in Child Psychotherapy

Bellinson

2009

Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy

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“…rent literature (Bixler, 1949;Ginott, 1959Ginott, , 1972Hayworth, 1964;Spiegel, 1989;Woods, 1993;Landreth and Wright, 1997;Lovinger, 1998;Landreth, 2002;Sugarman, 2003) is on your side, claiming that limits are important for good psychotherapy to occur.…”

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You Can't Do That — Or Can You? Historical and Clinical Perspectives on Limit Setting in Child Psychotherapy

Bellinson

2009

Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy

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“…In fact, Stewart, Winborn, Johnson, Burks, and Engelkes (1978) have maintained that it is the client's civil right to know what can be expected from counseling as practiced by his or her counselor. Bixler (1949) provided an example of therapy that illustrates the functions of structure in the therapeutic setting in which the counselor was compelled to inform the client that harm of the counselor's person or property would not be permitted. In establishing this guideline, the counselor employed each of the facilitative, therapeutic, and protective functions of therapeutic structure.…”

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“…2 Structure, particularly restrictions and limitations, should not be applied for punitive reasons or in a punitive manner (Bixler, 1949).…”

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“…Structure or restructure will also be needed when limits and procedures are violated, confusion or misunderstanding arises, or when concern for structure is expressed. The counselor must be flexible in structuring because it is not possible to anticipate everything needed to be structured, nor predict when it should be introduced (Bixler, 1949).…”

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Structuring the Counseling Process

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Sparacio

1980

The Personnel and Guidance Journal

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This article defines structure and structuring in counseling and presents a rationale for its use in counseling. The facilitative, therapeutic, and protective functions of structure are explored; practical, consumer, and process issues related to structure are described; the timing of structure in the therapeutic process is discussed; and limits and guidelines for structure and structuring in counseling and therapy are suggested. Rationale supporting the development of structuring skills by counselors is offered.

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Common factors of the patient-therapist relationship in diverse psychotherapies

Black

1952

J. Clin. Psychol.

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No topic in psychology today occupies a place of greater prominence than psychotherapy. Yet the subject is perhaps more replete with confusion and contradiction than any other in psychology. Neither layman nor therapist can hope to discover in the volumes written on the subject any very accurate picture of what most psychotherapy really consists of. There is a temptation to infer-not quite justlythat those who are doing therapy lack time to write about it and those who write lack very much diversified experience with it.Part of the difficulty with the literature lies in the fact that it fails to come t o grips with certain essential data. These data include the fact (1) that all therapists, of all shades of opinion and degrees of formal training, get results-and suffer failures; (2) that therapy is of necessity practiced under the most varied circumstances and must, therefore, include techniques of great flexibility; and (3) that criteria for measuring even the overall results of therapy are so inadequate that the validity of studies purporting to show results related to particular techniques is especially doubtfulThe apparent paradox that therapists of diametrically opposed philosophies are succcsafully using very different techniques on the same type of disorders has bcen emphasized before by the writer ( 3 ) and others@). The contrast between orthodox analysis or nondirective therapy and "conditioned reflex therapy", as outlined recently by Xalter(l7), is a striking example. But the point is more impressive still when we remind ourselves that the major share of psychotherapy done today is performed by people who are not even called therapists : ministers, general practitioners, teachers, social workers, lawyers, domestic relations and juvenile judges, probation officers and by laymen including ex-alcoholics, Big Brothers, Scout masters, and others. Any psychotherapist close to community life knows that these people, who usually lack formal psychological training, treat some cases as difficult as his and frequently with as much success as he achieves.By adopting either a psychoanalytic or a nondirective approach, it is possible for a therapist t o have at his disposal a fairly consistent theory, philosophy, or set of techniques and to find ample material in the literature describing them. Unfortunately, neither of these therapies can ever meet the practical demand for psychological treatment. The duration of orthodox analysjs makes it uneconomic and feasihle only for research, training, and the treatment of a minute segment of society. Orthodox nondirective therapy, on the other hand, is circumscribed by a rigid philosophy which disqualifies it in situations where the need for therapy is not already recognized by the patient or where therapy must be undertaken under compulsion or pressure, Since most therapists, especially those not in private practice, receive many patients who have to be rather "directively" led to understand why they were referred or committed and why they should undergo therapy(I'1, a nondi...

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Limits are therapy.

Cited by 38 publications

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You Can't Do That — Or Can You? Historical and Clinical Perspectives on Limit Setting in Child Psychotherapy

You Can't Do That — Or Can You? Historical and Clinical Perspectives on Limit Setting in Child Psychotherapy

Structuring the Counseling Process

Common factors of the patient-therapist relationship in diverse psychotherapies

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