Marital Therapy For Sex Addiction & Codependency
Marital Therapy For Sex Addiction & Codependency
Marital therapy can be viewed as a sub-type or family
Therapist. The overlap is seen in the couple who battle
about how to handle their 6-year-old son, who sets
fires: the wife blames the husband's permissiveness, he
blames her strictness, and both see the child as the one
needing treatment.
To the therapist, the problem is the
parental pulling and hauling for control over the child,
and the child's fire-setting is a search for clarification.
The therapist points this out and coaches the parents in
making changes in the rules by which they operate.
Those changes may not be directed at individual feelings,
yet such therapy, usually short-term, often yields
personality changes as the problem and its accompanying
stress disappear.
Couples frequently seek marital therapy because
one or both of the partners believe that the relationship
is troubled or are contemplating ending it through divorce
or separation. This is almost always the
case with couples dealing with the spouse
as a sex addiction and the other as codependency.
By seeing the therapist together,
the partners can more easily identify problems and alter
the ways in which they relate to each other. The main
advantage of couple's therapy is that the therapist, as an
impartial observer, can actually witness the couple's interactions
rather than hearing about them in a secondhand
and perhaps one-sided report.
Both family therapy and couples therapies
can be carried out from one of several
perspectives. family therapy is likely to include behavioral
or psychodynamic approaches. Couple's therapy
often utilizes a cognitive focus as well. Regardless
of the type of marital therapy practiced, a current trend
is to focus attention on specific relevant issues such as
helping the couple increase communication, express
feelings, help each other, and enjoy shared experiences.
Psychodrama
Although most group therapy is essentially an expanded,
more complicated, and more realistic version of
individual therapy, a number of approaches have been
designed especially for groups. One of these is psycho-
drama, which was created by Jacob Moreno who
led impromptu activity groups of children in the
public gardens of Vienna. He noticed that
when the children were encouraged to act out stories
instead of merely reading or listening to them, they often
displayed unexpected depths of feeling and understanding.
He later experimented with a form of
theater in which players were encouraged
to draw upon their inner resources in creating
the dramatic action rather than following a script.
In psychodrama a group of individuals assembles
under the leadership of a therapist (often called the director).
The group enacts events of emotional significance
in order to resolve conflicts and release members
from inhibitions that limit their capacity for spontaneous
and creative activity, particularly social activity.
Behavior therapists use role playing to give clients practice
in new social skills, but in psychodrama role playing
tends to be more spontaneous and oriented toward expressing
strongly felt emotions.
He saw psychodrama as a vehicle for expressing
strong emotions, acquiring insight into one's own
behavior, and realistically evaluating the behavior of
others. Psychodrama is a directive treatment in that the
therapist controls the mechanics of the therapy situation.
However, it is non-directive in that the emotional
content of sessions arises spontaneously from the activities
of the participants.
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