Parent-child conflict resolved.
This paper discusses the methods used to settle the emotional debt of love and nurturance withheld by the parent and owed to the child. The child, as an adult in a therapy setting, is responsible for the resolution of the conflict created by the parent-child relationship. The framework for each settlement of the debt is basically similar. Patient and therapist are allied together as trusting partners so that the patient can experience a close relationship with another person--something he or she may have missed with his or her own parents as a child. The patient then must divert his or her attention away from the unhappy past, thus forgetting it, and concentrate on the positive, fulfilling aspects of the present.
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000786:Anger; D002657:Child Development; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D011889:Rage