While family therapy has moved beyond these views of the therapist-client relationship, there are still ways in which family therapists can use Napier and Whitaker's "battles" to inform and enhance their work. In their now classic family therapy text, The Family Crucible (1978), Napier and Whitaker outline two main “battles” between therapists and clients: The battle for structure and the battle for initiative.Īt the time of their writing, concepts of resistance and unconscious processes were accepted within the family therapy field this may have been due, partly, to the fact that many family therapy pioneers were trained as psychiatrists.
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