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The illness orientation in medicine and traditional psychotherapy triggers resistance on the part of the patients. One expects the doctor to take something away: the appendix, a few ounces of blood, one’s favorite food. Just as the individual resists these kinds of interventions, so the patients and their families defend themselves against therapeutic measures that threaten to upset the family’s balance. This can be the case when one expects reprimands from the therapist, when old habits and roles are questioned, or when family values are passed over.
Don’t be too sweet, lest you be eaten up; don’t be too bitter, lest you be spewed out.
—Oriental wisdom
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Peseschkian, N. (1986). Positive Family Therapy Does Not Remove Anything. In: Positive Family Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70680-6_29
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