title: Case Report: Object Relations Family Therapy as a Model for Genetic Counseling.
abstract: Object relations family therapy (ORFT) is a psychoanalytically based approach for the treatment of couples and families which stresses the importance of past relationships. The therapist assumes a parentlike role and provides a holding environment in which clients can explore unconscious motivations. This paper will discuss the applicability of this method to genetic counseling. The case of a couple seen for recurrent trisomies will be presented and used as an example to discuss how ORFT might serve as a framework in a genetic counseling session.
authors.affiliation: Genetic Counselling Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, diekmann@binah.cc.brandeis.edu.
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authors.lastname: Diekmann-Tapon