TRANSTHEORETICAL PRACTICE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

A developmental model forms the framework for the transtheoretical pra ctice of psychotherapy. Major preoedipal and oedipal events, interface d with significant two-person (mother-child) and three-person (father- mother child) influences-dyadic deficit, dyadic conflict, triadic defi cit, triadic conflict-are instrumental in the formation of different r elationship patterns in treatment that transcend classical versus self object transferences. Therapeutic as well as countertherapeutic stance s and strategies are elucidated.