Contextual approach · Loyalties
What are invisible loyalties?
Since the rise of family therapies in the 1950s, therapists have taken a close interest in the invisible bonds woven within families.
How can they be spotted? How can they be mapped out? And how can they be drawn upon to accompany each family in the way that is most relevant to it?
Among these bonds runs the very powerful thread of loyalty. That is the one at stake here — and invisible loyalties in particular.
I explain all of this in the video below — in French.
How to cite this article
Besse, J. (2022, June 26). What are invisible loyalties?. Complexe Systémique. https://app.complexe-systemique.com/en_GB/articles/what-are-invisible-loyalties
To go further
- Is there a hidden ledger in all our relationships? The psychology of debt and givingDebt, giving and an invisible balance: what our relationships tally without saying so.
- Relational injustices, invisible loyalties and repair: what the contextual approach revealsWhen relational justice and repair become levers for therapy.
- Parentification: when to worry and what to doWhen a child carries burdens that should never have been theirs.
- Contextual therapy embodied: an interview with Stéphanie HaxheStéphanie Haxhe recounts how the contextual approach comes alive in session.
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