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Vulnerability schemas of individuals in couples relationships: a cognitive perspective

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The professional literature has recently given attention to addressing individual schemas in couples’ relationships, with particular emphasis on the fact that individual vulnerability has a significant impact on couples’ relationships. This article addresses how this vulnerability can be restructured during the course of couples’ therapy. Case vignettes are used to illustrate how the model can be applied. Some of the implications of this model are considered in the discussion section.

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  1. Family Therapy Department, Modum Bad Vikersund, Norway

    Terje Tilden

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Frank M. Dattilio

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Author’s note: Portions of this article were published in Norwegian by the first author and appear in Nordby, T.T. (2002): Kognitiv parterapi. En tilnærming som ivaretar betydningen av den individuelle sårbarheten i samspillet. Reprinted by permission of Fokus på familien 30, 46–60.

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Tilden, T., Dattilio, F.M. Vulnerability schemas of individuals in couples relationships: a cognitive perspective. Contemp Fam Ther 27, 139–162 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-005-4036-4

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