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The article informs that the socio-psychological character of family-group treatment. Treatment sessions with the total family group have many novel features that are now being pointed out in the professional literature. Many writers place major emphasis on the social aspects of the family interview and seem to ignore its psychological aspects. The aim of this article is to discuss the inseparability of the social and the psychological aspects-an inseparability that is as characteristic of family-group interviewing as it is of life. Among the many emotions-supportive and conflictful, affectionate and destructive- stirred in each family member by the family interview itself is that of the family as an entity or a group and of his having a place in it. Whether his feeling is positive or negative, integrative into or dissociative from the family, there is always a felt image of the family as a group. A shared group feeling is usually latent in all family members, but the fact that they have deliberately come together in one spot makes them more keenly aware of it. Normally, family members get together only when the gathering is incidental to the performance of a particular family function-eating a meal, taking an outing, or participating in a special event. The family treatment session is something different because, as every family member including the very young child well knows, it is focused chiefly on having the family look at itself and be looked at. In other words, the convening per se has a specific purpose. |
