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Paul, a divorced father, wants to back out of his child care
arrangement and spend less time with his children.Nathan has been
lying to his wife about a serious medical condition.Marsha,
recently separated from her husband, cannot resist telling her
children negative things about their father.What is the role of
therapy in these situations? Trained to strive for neutrality and
to focus strictly on the clients' needs, most therapists generally
consider moral issues such as fairness, truthfulness, and
obligation beyond their domain. Now, an award-winning psychologist
and family therapist criticizes psychotherapy's overemphasis on
individual self-interest and calls for a sense of moral
responsibility in therapy.
In the narrative of every human life and family, illness is a
prominent character. Even if we have avoided serious illness
ourselves, we cannot escape its reach into our circle of family and
friends. Illness brings us closer to one another through caregiving
and separates us through disability and death, yet little attention
has been paid to personal and family illness in psychotherapy.
Rather, therapists tend to focus on the psychosocial realm, leaving
the biological realm to other physicians and nurses. Susan H.
McDaniel, Jeri Hepworth, and William J. Doherty invited therapists
who work with individuals and families experiencing chronic illness
and disability to describe clinical cases that illustrate their
approach to medical family therapy. Contributors then were asked to
share a personal story about their experiences with illness, and to
explain how those experiences affect the way they work with their
clients. Vivid case studies dealing with a range of illnesses,
including cancer infertility, schizophrenia, AIDS, heart disease,
diabetes, asthma, and multiple sclerosis, show how the therapists'
own experiences of illness are relevant to their care of others-and
how these experiences can be used to form a healing bond in
therapy. Poignant, honest, and illuminating, "The Shared Experience
of Illness" allows us to understand more fully the relationship
between the personal and the professional.
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