Contextual therapy (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Boszormenyi-Nagy, I. Foundations of contextual therapy, 1987 ("Trust building is both the ideological fundation and the primary tool of contextual therapy. The ethical dimension ... is neither the superego of the Freudian model nor the traditional morality of religion. The authors refer to this dimension as "merited trust" [which] is the long-term balance of fairness between the generations and within couples and [which] derives from the existential fact that human beings are born into some form of the family and, inevitably, must come to terms with what they deserve, can expect to receive, and what is expected of them within that institution.")

Baker encycl. psych. (Contextual family therapy : "this approach understands human existence in the context of human relationships ... Family pathology is regarded as the result of exploitation in the realm of relational ethics ... The goal of contextual family therapy is to move the marital partners and family members in the direction of ethical relationships.")

Hennepin (Contextual therapy)

MESH; Psych, Abst.; Eysenck encyc. psych.; English comp. dict. psych.; Evans psych.; Harre & Lamb Encycl. dict psych.; Chaplin Dict. psy.; Harriman encyc. psych.; Psych. alm.;Campbell psych. dict.; Kaplan psych.