Working with Relationship Triangles
Subtitle: One-Two-Three of Psychotherapy, The
Publisher: The Guilford Press; Guilford Press
Published: October 4, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781572301436
Subjects: Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Group Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy - Couples & Family; Psychology; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Psychology & Psychiatry / Family Therapy; Triangles (Interpersonal relat
First sentence: At the very beginning-of your life, as soon as your conception became known, either your father, your mother, or both may have experienced you as an intruder.
Description: Virtually all significant relationships are shadowed by a third party - another person, a competing distraction, or even a memory. While clinicians almost always recognize notorious triangles for the curses that they are - extramarital affairs, for example, or feuds with the in-laws - many therapists continue to underestimate the extent to which different sorts of triangles complicate most people's lives.

As ubiquitous as they can be destructive, relationship triangles are the focus of this illuminating new work, which provides a groundbreaking analysis of how triangles function and a hands-on guide to working with triangles in therapy with couples, families, and individuals.

The authors show how and why triangles come into being, how to predict their evolving nature, and ways therapists can move from individual to dyad to triangle and back again to create a seamless web of therapy that greatly increases therapeutic flexibility and effectiveness.