Systemic relational therapy and the case from the clinical practice

• Main Author: Tatjana Rožič
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Slovenian Psychologists' Association 2003-06-01
• Series: Psihološka Obzorja
• Subjects: systemic relational therapy; system; interpersonal; intrapsyhic; responsibility
• Online Access: http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2003_2/rozic.pdf

In the present article are represented the principal guidelines of the systemic relational model of psychotherapy and an example of clinical practice where the pacient was incluced in this kind of therapy. In the essence of systemic relational model there is a person which is captured in the repetition of old patterns in spite of its painfulness and hardness. Captured and helpless in old patterns, the person not only repeats but also recreates them, because they promise safety, belonging and connectedness. From the review of the therapy it is evident that behind the pacient's concrete problems stands her family system to which she is loyal in the way that only deepens her distress. By the increasing the responsability for herself, for her feelings and her acts, it increases the pacient's funcionality, too.