With Onions and Tears: A Multidimensional Analysis of a Counter-Ritual
| Autor: | Stephen E. Levick, Behnaz Jalali, John S. Strauss |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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Male Psychotherapist Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Denial Psychological Crying Denial Intervention (counseling) Ethnography Humans Family media_common Laughter Mythology Middle Aged Variety (cybernetics) Sadness Identified patient Affect Clinical Psychology Schizophrenia Perphenazine Family Therapy Female Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Family Process. 20:77-83 |
| ISSN: | 1545-5300 0014-7370 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1981.00077.x |
| Popis: | “Family rituals” and “family myths” are useful concepts for understanding some of the behavior of disturbed families and hence for planning therapeutic interventions. A case of a family of a schizophrenic patient is described in which a “counter-ritual” involving onion-peeling to induce tearing was invented. The intervention addressed the family's inappropriate laughter and denial of sadness and seemed to lead to therapeutic gains for the identified patient and the family. This counter-ritual, as an indirect affect-inducing experience, is analyzed from a variety of perspectives and a partial parallel is drawn to an Iranian cultural ritual. A suggestion is made that more light may be shed on the mechanisms and structures of myths and rituals in families by drawing on studies of myths and rituals in ethnography. “Counter-ritual” is offered as a general concept for a type of active family intervention that involves inventing and employing rituals antithetical to pathological ones engaged in by some families. |
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