Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy for Couples



Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy for Couples

Introduction

The article that is titled Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy for Couples, and was written by Brent J. Atkinson, is basically exhibiting the approach of a treatment, which is termed as an experiential therapy for couples. The articles also put a great emphasis on that approach which is a combination of tangible modification in the interaction of couple with the methods that are linked with the experiential therapy with the intention to help the clients. The therapy involved the experiential activities are actually therapies which are used in couples, which allows the couple to learn from their shared experiences. In this therapy the couple is focused on the direct relation with each other. There are many therapies in which different therapist uses different approaches to work on the client. Although, every client has some specific problem which might do not relate which any of the previous clients, in such cases that therapist should have covered the needs of the client. Moreover, the experiential therapies are the activities that could be involved in the exercises in order to help the couple top put their focus on the relationship in each other, imagining how they relate each other. There are more approaches in this therapy.

Moreover, according to the content of the article and the specific exhibits of the author, it said that the couple is more influences in these types of approaches, where they are directed towards each other to resolve the concerns and issues in the relationship. The author exclaimed that several methods are evolved in the experiential therapy with the intention to help the client moreover for major two reasons; one is to help the couples influence their emotional state which sometimes serves as a hurdle in the change when it is needed in terms of thinking and behavior, the second is the deliberate intention of the therapist in order to make the couple direct to each other, this results in the direct contact within the couple, which ultimately let them handle and adopt the change which is highly needed at that point, and thus, it is very much feasible for the therapist too in order to facilitate the change. Thus, the main objective of the paper is to describe the application of pragmatic/experiential therapy with couples (Atkinson, 1993b).

Reason for the Article

The main reason for the author to publish this article will be discusses in details. The author described in detail about the couple therapy which usually impacted under the disorders like distressing, redundant patterns which could involve the couple in mutual reactions over other reactions. This is the cyclic procedure where the cycle could influence a couple into behaviors, which could augment the behavior of the other partner. It is more defined with the proverb, “from the frying pan into the fire.” And thus, none of the two partners mingles which each other to resolve the concern, this is the result in the gap which get widen at every cycle. Thus the therapy consisting of activities ...