Family-system therapy principles

Normal personalities are inner-family systems of semi-in-dependent subselves or “parts.” Experience suggests that using family-system therapy principles with subselves is often effective at reducing a wide range of personal and some physical problems. A basic premise here is that when one or more adults’ inner families are out of harmony, their relation-ships and outer families have “major problems.”   6 PSYCHOLOGICAL… Read More Family-system therapy principles

Family Systems Therapy

A system is a set of related elements that interact dynamically with each other and the environment, and have identifiable properties. The key elements of a family system are its members + beliefs + roles + rules + assets + limitations + goals + boundaries + subsystems (e.g. siblings) + environment – a larger system of systems, or metasystem. Understanding these elements… Read More Family Systems Therapy