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Repetition Compulsion Revisited in Relational Family Therapy: The Discovery of Old in Order to Develop Something New

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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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This study was funded by Slovenian Research Agency (Project No. J5-6825).

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  1. Department for Marital and Family Therapy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Presernov trg 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Christian Gostečnik, Tanja Repič Slavič, Tanja Pate & Robert Cvetek

  2. Franciscan Family Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Christian Gostečnik, Tanja Repič Slavič, Tanja Pate & Robert Cvetek

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Gostečnik, C., Repič Slavič, T., Pate, T. et al. Repetition Compulsion Revisited in Relational Family Therapy: The Discovery of Old in Order to Develop Something New. J Relig Health 58, 612–627 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0613-3

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