Which ever model one subscribes to, attachment or differentiation, the natural history of marital therapy sessions always includes a large portion of polarizing, push away behaviors. Practically, what this means is that therapy generally alternates between work towards closening behaviors on the one hand, and reconnecting behaviors following polarization on the other hand. It is even possible to conceptualize the therapeutic process itself as a dialectic between these two opposite emotional moments.
About Orin Borders, Ph.D.
Orin Borders, Ph.D, a psychologist in private practice with a long standing interest in the Marriage-Of-Opposites, is the originator on this site.
