title: Transtheoretical practice of psychotherapy.
abstract: A developmental model forms the framework for the transtheoretical practice of psychotherapy. Major preoedipal and oedipal events, interfaced with significant two-person (mother-child) and three-person (father-mother-child) influences--dyadic deficit, dyadic conflict, triadic deficit, triadic conflict--are instrumental in the formation of different relationship patterns in treatment that transcend classical versus selfobject transferences. Therapeutic as well as countertherapeutic stances and strategies are elucidated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA.
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Karasu
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology