Midlife Crisis: Support for Left Behind Spouses
Midlife Crisis => Resources => Topic started by: Rollercoasterider on February 18, 2014, 06:19:41 PM
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http://www.drbilldoherty.org/pdf/How_Therapists_Harm_Marriage.pdf
Dr. Bill Doherty wrote this article many years ago. He says that he used to follow the traditional neutral stance in marriage counseling, but for many years he has advised a different stance: the marriage is the patient. He is the founder of the Pro-Marriage Therapist Registry. More recently he has talked written about therapy for mixed agenda couples--the partner we would call the Stander he calls Leaning In and the other Leaning Out and he calls the counseling Discernment Counseling. Here is an article about that from a few years ago.
https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/recentissues/2011-novdec/item/1439-in-or-out/1439-in-or-out