title: "Enmeshment" and "fusion".
abstract: The paper examines two related concepts utilized by two different schools of family therapy. Any family seen to be "enmeshed" is also seen as "fused," and vice versa. The difference in the level of focus, on the "system containing the individuals" (structural) or the "individual in the system" (fusion), determines the difference in therapeutic approach of these two schools.
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003142:Communication; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D013597:Systems Analysis