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Repetition Compulsion Revisited in Relational Family Therapy: The Discovery of Old in Order to Develop Something New
Christian Gostečnik1,2, Tanja Repič Slavič3,4, Tanja Pate3,4
1Department for Marital and Family Therapy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Presernov trg 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia. christian.gostecnik@guest.arnes.si.
Abstract:
Psychoanalysis has always been full of diversity and controversy, in the theoretical field and especially in the plasticity and variety of its modalities and approaches. Yet all these theories are based on the premise that individuals compulsively repeat their old psycho-organic content, both in their personal lives and in analysis; the premise of Relational Family Therapy is that old emotional, behavioral and bodily complications must first be repeated before being fully processed so that something new can be created.
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