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Beyond the transference: Interviews with adults and their parents in psychotherapy

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This article illustrates the utilization of strategically introduced interviews with adults and their parents in psychodynamically oriented individual and marital psychotherapy. The effectiveness of these interviews in diagnostic data gathering, as crisis intervention, and in illuminating the parent-patient antecedents to patient-therapist conflicts is demonstrated. Transference implications of these family interviews is discussed.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, 77030, Houston, TX

    Robert L. Beck

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Beck, R.L. Beyond the transference: Interviews with adults and their parents in psychotherapy. Clin Soc Work J 12, 57–68 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00778594

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