Self-Object Considerations in Marriage and Marital Therapy

Transgenerational Family Therapy

“…Bowen family systems theory is an example of a theory of transgenerational family therapy; the multigenerational, thematic genogram interview i s an example of a 'transgenerational technique that could be used in a variety of ways and from a variety of theoretical positions. Under the broad category of transgenerational family therapy, we include coaching techniques of Bowen (1978;Kerr, 1981;Kerr & Bowen, 1988), contextual family therapy (Boszormenyi-Nagy & Krasner, 1986), family-of-origin therapy as described by Fine & Hovestadt (1987), intergenerational family therapy described by Wilcoxon (1987), object relations therapy (Framo, 1982;Sonne & Swirsky, 1981), and approaches by a variety of others (e.g., Carter & McGoldrick, 1988;Whitaker & Keith, 1981).…”

The Borderline/Schizoid Marriage: The Holding Environment as an Essential Treatment Construct

“…It is useful to work through these less intense therapistkpouse transference distortions prior to addressing the more intense distortions in the marital dyad. The transference distortions in the therapist/spouse dyad parallel the distortions within the marriage; the working through of the former serves to inform and partly ameliorate the intensity of the latter (Sonne & Swirsky, 1981).…”