omnipartial
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November 11th, 2022
notes on couples counselling etc from reading › Legal and Ethical Issues in Couple Therapy › the 7 problems › neutrality
- omnipartiality
- > Although [multipartiality] is appealing, it is not without its disadvantages. First, one must frequently align with one member of the couple or another. Maintaining neutrality in this way requires much skill. It can be difficult for the therapist, because it requires great personal flexibility, intense concentration, and an ability to repair relational ruptures, so that neither member of the couple feels attacked or ignored for very long.
- uhhh I would simply develop much skill, personal flexibility, intense concentration, and an ability to repair relational ruptures 😅
- > A second problem is that multipartiality assumes that the couple will come to understand the continual shifting of allegiances as indicative of the therapist’s neutrality. Such an assumption presumes a certain degree of insight and intellectual sophistication that all couples may not possess.
- you know, you're not wrong here
- one response I have to that is that I'm mostly interested in working with people who are at that level — it's someone else's job to level them up
- or we'd have to look at those assumptions directly, which I think I would be relatively able to notice and direct attention to