Reclaiming Men's Experience in Couples Therapy

Neal, John H.

doi:10.1300/j086v02n03_05

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“…More positive and proactive responses from men in addressing the issues of gender inequality and men's roles in families, with a broad gender sensitive or feminist perspective, have recently been forthcoming (Meth and Pasick, 1990;Reimers and Dimmock, 1990;Allen and Laird, 1991;Neal and Slobodnik, 1991). The crisis that brings families to therapy may be considered as a possible discontinuity or contradiction between a person's experience and their own internal working model of 'self and other'.…”

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The construction of the gendered self

Hart¹

1996

Journal of Family Therapy

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Feminist contributions to systemic approaches to human behaviour have led to gender being defined in interactional terms. Gender is seen not as a fixed quality or trait but as one socially constructed between men and women. This idea is discussed in relation to the gender debate in family therapy, attachment theory and feminist contributions to psychoanalytic thinking. Gender relationships are created as part of a person's internal working models of self and other. The ways in which gender patterns are carried forward are examined, especially with respect to the contradictions between a person's gendered internal working models and their experience. These ideas are explored through case examples.

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The construction of the gendered self

Hart¹

1996

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…Locating certain habits and beliefs in a context of gender specifications (Neal & Slobodnik, 1991;Sheinberg & Penn, 1991) serves further to deconstruct the problem. Women are often trained to have certain ideas, for example, being for others and not for themselves, and are more comfortable affiliating under stress and discussing their affective experience.…”

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Separating Couples From Restraining Patterns and the Relationship Discourse That Supports Them*

Zimmerman¹,

Dickerson²

1993

J Marital Family Therapy

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Using ideas from postmodern thought, a process of therapy is described in which couples are "separated" from the reciprocal patterns which have become restraining and are currently affecting the relationship. The description of the pattern is co-created between the therapist and the couple. Once a different pattern begins to emerge, various aspects of relationship or gender discourse and their effect on the relationship are worked with as needed. To help couples break these patterns and separate from the influence of discourse which they determine to be not suitable to their own preferred descriptions, the therapist brings forth other descriptions of the people and/or the relationship which are grounded in their experience. Therapy becomes a parallel process of deconstructing patterns/discourse and restorying along preferred lines.

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Family Therapy's Response to Family Diversity

Leslie

Morton

2001

Journal of Family Issues

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As family diversity has increased in recent decades, the profession of marriage and family therapy has struggled to be responsive. The authors review efforts by marriage and family therapists in the past 30 years to incorporate an understanding of diverse families into clinical theory and practice. In addition, the authors examine recent trends in response to family diversity and consider how this may influence future treatment.

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Reclaiming Men's Experience in Couples Therapy

Cited by 4 publications

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The construction of the gendered self

The construction of the gendered self

Separating Couples From Restraining Patterns and the Relationship Discourse That Supports Them*

Family Therapy's Response to Family Diversity

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