Marital and Family Therapy

Unlike narrative therapists, therapists who adhere to the traditional model of psychotherapy believe that they should occupy a privileged position that is characterized by superiority, expertise and power vis-a-vis their clients. In other words, clients are expected to defer to the knowledge and authority of their therapists who supposedly possess the key to the answers that will eliminate their problems. Contrary to this conventional image of the therapist-client relationship, Keeney (1993) proposed a more complex view of the relationship in which both therapist and client influence one another in the therapeutic process (pp. 19-20). With this circular or recursive perspective of the relationship, the superiority of the authority of the therapist thus comes into

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