[jounal] Sabatelli, R.M / 2003 / Family
of Origin Experiences and Adjustment in Married Couples / Journal of Marriage and the Family 65: 159 ~ 169
It has been my experience both personally and professionally that many emotional and mental health issues are connected to family
of origin experiences with parents, primary caregivers and attachment figures.
Elise could explore her feelings of being suffocated, looking back to potential family
of origin experiences of feeling suffocated that are exacerbating her current reactions.
Similarly, Nora's anger surged when she experienced Jerry as not listening to her, again, a sensitivity stemming from family
of origin experiences.
We think this is particularly important for therapists whether they are conducting individual, couples, or group ST.. The impact of clustered schemas and concurrent mode reactions with BPD and NPD (issues of anger, bullying, and rigidly detached modes) that emerge in individual work; schema and mode clashes with couples; a number of clients getting activated at the same time in a group, can all amplify therapists» reactions, triggering affect related to family
of origin experiences and modes.
After enrolling (see the above link to the «Registration» page), we suggest you take an online relationship questionnaire called RELATE that will generate information about your values, expectations, personality and family
of origin experiences as well as communication and conflict resolution styles.
You'll be able to help them identify current life stressors, family
of origin experiences, and other factors that made them vulnerable to an affair; appreciate the power, addiction, and illusion of romantic love; and make thoughtful, self - interested decisions about whether to fight for the relationship or end it.
Counseling for Individuals Are you noticing areas of your life that are affected by family
of origin experiences, and you don't know how to break free?
The importance of negative family
of origin experiences including lack of support for sexual identity, for mental health risk was highlighted, and the need for more specialist GLBQ family support services
It also helps for partners to have an understanding of each other's family
of origin experience.
An objective picture of one's own family
of origin experience, and awareness of the resultant expectations brought into marriage, can help a couple avoid blaming and resentments and facilitate intimacy.
Not exact matches
The Intercept's Lee Fang last month traced the
origins of various sites known for peddling misinformation about U.S. politics to «
experienced political operators well within the orbit
of Donald Trump's political advisers and consultants.»
Have a bachelor's degree or higher and professional
experience in the field
of engineering, information technology, or a related field from the country
of origin
Canadian Universities like UBC, the University
of Toronto, McGill, and others have just
experienced lively and civil debates that pit students
of Hong Kong
origins against students
of Mainland
origins.
Both direct themselves to the «way things are» not only by developing cosmogonies, accounts
of the
origin of the universe, but also in relation to nearer - at - hand
experience of biological and inorganic nature» (Peacocke, 31).
This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements
of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate
origin and authority, not method
of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect
of literature
of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human
experience.
The symbols, concepts, images, stories and myths
of Christian
origin, which remain deeply embedded in the fabric
of western culture, will continue to offer the raw material from which people form their understanding
of life, develop their capacity for spirituality and
experience satisfaction at the deepest levels.
«Modern European philosophy, which had its
origins in Plato and Aristotle, after sixteen hundred years
of Christianity reformulated its problems with increased attention to the importance
of the individual subject
of experience, conceived as an abiding entity with a transition
of experiences.»
To be sure, if the reader shares at all the author's
experience, he will find that clear light is shed on the mature convictions
of Judaism and Christianity by such a study
of their
origins and growth.
Genuine Christians who've converted from Islam have had their asylum claims rejected and been sent back to their country
of origin where they're at risk
of experiencing family rejection, beatings and even death.
A value structure
of European
origin and reshaped by the American
experience remains.
Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the
origins of human religious
experience much farther back in the historical progress
of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.
Appropriate care for the previous generation involves, among other things, what family therapist Murray Bowen has called «differentiation
of the self from the family
of origin» (see Family Therapy and Clinical Practice [Aronson, 19781) Those who work professionally with families have found that people
experiencing marital or other family pain frequently have an unfinished agenda with the prior generation.
After the terrible
experience of the European wars
of religion occasioned by the sixteenth - century Reformation, many
of the brightest and best, including many thoughtful Christians, decided that God and the gods could have no place in the public telling
of the myth
of origins.
This stress on the primacy
of process and the ultimacy
of constitutive relations means that, in considering the morphological structure
of religious
experience, attention must be directed to its
origin in the physical feelings which comprise the primary mode
of human
experience.
How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic
origins,
experience a sense
of awe and beauty, and display an attitude
of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even when suffering under conditions that are brutal and horrific?
Perhaps the revitalization
of our religious traditions will come from new efforts to live them as
experienced realities, rather than objects
of thought, by those who find them meaningful, whatever their own
origins may be.
It is still a common
experience for the missionaries in a pagan land to find the divisions
of the Christian church
of less significance than in the place
of their
origin.
This is not race counting, nor is it a denial
of the importance
of the suffering
of black Americans shown through their
experience of oppression — it is simply a matter
of fact regarding the
origins of modern American music.
If our families
of origin invoke pain and suffering in our hearts (our
experience of the flesh, as Paul would say), we can be comforted by the knowledge that we are adopted into another family — literally, as is the case for the Robertses, or spiritually and ultimately, for everyone who becomes a Christian and is redeemed by God in Christ.
The
origin of this prejudice, which is largely imaginary, can no doubt be traced to the disagreeable sense
of loss and constraint which the individual
experiences when he finds himself involved in a group or lost in a crowd.
Some metaphors readily lend themselves to high development because they belong to a metaphor system, i.e. a group
of metaphors linked together by their common
origin in a single area
of human observation,
experience or activity, which has generated its own peculiar sublanguage or jargon.110
Those who reflected on the Bible were taught to expect that the universe
of human
experience may have had its
origins in chaos and nothingness.
Since Abraham and «all that is» have their
origin in the same God, the Pope seems to imply that Abraham's
experience of a call is the common
experience of humanity.
The dark night
of the soul has become commonplace in the culture and in Christian circles, but the
origins of the term and the
experience it's trying to name are not as well known.
When we ask how Paul came to be preaching the cross
of Christ, then we find that his Gospel took its
origin and shape out
of his conversion
experience on the road to Damascus.
We have seen that the Qur» an could not have human
origins traceable either to the
experience of Muhammad in the environment
of his time or to his ability to construct the Holy Book by use
of his reason.
It is not only mental activity, clear logic, or more persistent thinking that is needed in order to conceive these ideas radically; for the concepts
of sin and grace have their
origin not in theoretical reflection, they are the expression
of man's
experience that the reality
of his own existence is determined by sin and grace.
Thus he has encouraged us to believe in him as the Son, to call the abyss
of mystery Father, to realize both our
origin and our future in this word alone, and thus to measure the dimensions
of our dignity,
of our task,
of the danger and
experience of our life.
As regards the psychopathic
origin of so many religious phenomena, that would not be in the least surprising or disconcerting, even were such phenomena certified from on high to be the most precious
of human
experiences.
At the level
of the worshiper, however, religious
experience has a tendency to seek out its place
of origin.
It is ultimately from this deeply interior and never fully communicable
experience of Jesus» relation to God that Christian revelation has its specific
origin.
Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority
of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state
of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part
of men
experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine
of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the
origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].
Questions
of origin are genetic questions, as far as they concern the
experience of reality
of the «epistemic» subject, out
of which that subject's interpretation
of reality emerges.
The assembled documents, as they now stand, suggest that the empty tomb and the sight and handling
of the risen body were the
origin of confidence in the resurrection, and that the
experience of the early Christians afterward went on to further visions
of him, more spiritually conceived, as, for example, Paul's on the Damascus road.
The new unity goes deep, It implies a continuity in
origin of the subjective elements
of individuals which we recognize so clearly in our human
experience.
Creativity is nothing more, but nothing less either, than «this factor
of activity:» «this factor
of activity; (included in the initial situation) which is the reason for the
origin of that occasion
of experience» (Adventures 179).
In other words, Whitehead's reference to creativity as the universal «factor
of activity which is the reason for the
origin of the new occasion
of experience» (Adventures 179) is not against the ontological principle.
It comes about by that «factor
of activity which is the reason for the
origin of that occasion
of experience» (as Whitehead puts it in Adventures 179.)
How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic
origins,
experience a sense
of awe and beauty, and display an attitude
of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even under conditions that are brutal and horrific?