Family Psychologist

Video: Family Psychologist

Video: Family Psychologist
Video: What is Family Therapy? 2024, May
Family Psychologist
Family Psychologist
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A family psychologist differs from a therapist who works only individually in that he views the family as a single organism. What is seven? Family is a group of people who are united by blood relationship, common history, rituals, signs, etc.

The family psychologist turns his attention to the family not only as two or more individuals, but as a holistic education. The relationship between spouses is given a leading role and only then is it considered extended: with children, grandparents, uncles and aunts, etc. Many experts admit that when we choose a life partner for ourselves, we do not choose a specific person, we choose someone who reflects our unconscious fantasies. From the point of view of Henry Dix: "We do not marry a specific person, but with our unconscious desires and fantasies about him."

A very important point is considered how the family functions, whether it is healthy, harmonious. A good family fulfills all social functions, satisfies the psychological needs of each family member. There are several criteria for assessing the family: 1) social criterion (each family member's life is developing successfully in various spheres, and not only in the family); 2) mental and physical health (both psychological illnesses and psychosamatic disorders are absent, general health prevails in the family); 3) cohesion (a healthy desire to be together, satisfaction with relationships, including satisfaction in sexual life); 4) dynamic criterion (the presence of changes and progression not only in family life, but also in each family member).

Bad family - a dysfunctional family is characterized by the fact that the family as a whole hinders the development of individual family members. In such a family, destructive conflicts are frequent, there is a strong fixation on problems, and not on attempts and ways to solve them, various types of destructive behavior are highly developed. Feelings such as discontent, suffering, aggression, depression, rage and other destructive and negative feelings prevail.

Psychoanalysts or psychoanalytically oriented family psychologists (psychotherapists) also work with families in which problems have arisen. The purpose of such therapists is to identify and bring to an understanding of unconscious or partially conscious processes in the family. It can be: hidden individual dynamics (pathological fantasies, internal and external conflicts, psychosamatic diseases); individual and family history of these experiences and events; how partners influence each other and cause pathological experiences and conflicts in each other; hidden family history to which they very rarely return (individual development of each, acquaintance and development of relationships, the birth and formation of a family, family customs, etc.). It is also extremely important how the family therapist and his office affect the state of the family and what is happening in it.

I will continue to discuss family therapy in the next article.

If you have any questions, you can ask me, and I am ready to answer them.

Mikhail Ozhirinsky - psychoanatlyst, group analyst.

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