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A Systemic Approach to Couple Therapy

MONY ELKAÏM M.D.

Director of the Institute for the Study of Family and Human Systems, Square des Nations 5, 1050 Brussels, Belgium; and Editor of the journal Cahiers Critiques de Thérapie Familiale et de Pratiques de Réseaux.

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MONY ELKAÏM M.D.,

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First published: March 1986

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.1986.00035.x

Citations: 13

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Abstract

This article presents a model of couple therapy based on the reciprocal double bind. Two cases are presented to illustrate the model, and different modes of intervention are described. This paper stresses that therapy has more to do with the intersection of the maps of the world of members of a system than it has with a search for some individual or systemic truth.

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March 1986

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