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Enmeshment, Fusion or Relatedness? A Conceptual Analysis
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Bograd, Michele |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Basic family systems concepts may reflect prototypically male standards of self and relationships, which contribute to the common practice of label in women's preferred interactional styles as pathological or dysfunctional. The terms "enmeshment" and "fusion" are such basic family systems terms that many family therapists, regardless of their theoretical persuasion, employ them as descriptive of dysfunctional family structures and processes. The terms fusion and enmeshment derive from two distinct theoretical models: Bowen Family Systems Theory and Structural Family Therapy. Enmeshment is described as an intra familial interpersonal event, which privatizes the family and ascribes responsibility to individual family members for their transactional patterns. Family therapy lacks terms that encode the taken-for-granted strengths, skills, and capacities of women as they engage in the complex activity of mothering. Every family therapy model rests on a metaphor of relationships, regardless of how explicitly it is acknowledged and described. Book Name: Women, Feminism and Family Therapy |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315804200-4&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 80 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 65 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315804200-4 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2013-12-16 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Women, Feminism and Family Therapy Mathematical Psychology Structural Fusion Enmeshment Theoretical Dysfunctional Family Systems Models Family Therapy |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
