Volume 11, suplement 1
Problemy terapeutyczne
Triangulated unfaithfulness – marital therapy with
Bogdan de Barbaro1, KATARZYNA GDOWSKA1
1. Zakładu Terapii Rodzin Katedry Psychiatrii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie
Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 2002, 11, suplement 1 (14), 83-87
Keywords: marital therapy, triangulation, case report
Abstract
The authors describe marital therapy in a family in which the crisis started when the husband's unfaithfulness was revealed. A number of marital problems were disclosed in the course of therapy, first and foremost – a shaky balance between the need for closeness and uncertainty coupled with apprehension of closeness. The very fact of unfaithfulness and conflicts concerning the husband' sex-mistress turned out to be a key regulator of this marital relationship.
Address for correspondence:
Doc. Bogdan de Barbaro,
Zakład Terapii Rodzin Kated1y Psychiatrii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego,
ul. Kopernika 21A,
31-501 Kraków