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Richard A. Lloyd, MD; Irene Paulson, MSW

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1972;27(3):410-413.

Abstract
Couples can set up a closed marital system which protects each of their internal worlds from modification by reality and thus presents as a tenacious resistance in psychotherapy. We have described a technique for circumventing such a system. This involves seeing the couple together, utilizing a male and female co-therapist, yet maintaining a strictly analytic approach, focusing on projective identification occurring in the transference.

Author Affiliations
Los Angeles

From the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 11, 1972.

Reprint requests to the Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles 90024 (I. Paulson).