Il teatro della terapia di coppia tra commedia, tragedia e satira

Journal title EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE
Author/s Pietro Barbetta
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/25
Language Italian Pages 10 P. 74-83 File size 65 KB
DOI 10.3280/EDS2016-025006
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Couple therapy as theatre between comedy, tragedy and satire. In this essay I will focus my attention on two main issues: 1. my experience as a trainee in psychotherapy, 30 years back; 2. the way the Milan School of Family Therapy has been dealing with couple therapy all along the last 30 years. Behind the scene of education and good will, the Western family hides that the couple attending therapy conceals and shows, at the same time, a relationship which is falling apart. In general, therapists tend to exercise neutrality during the conversation. The argument of feminist therapist against neutrality is: if neutral therapy works, it works out for the worse, replacing wives under the thumb of husbands. Being me a man, I can not avoid such a real presence, the presence of oppression and authoritarianism. The conclusion is that, in my experience, couple therapy is tough and hard as far as the therapist does not shifts from everyday life to the theatrical scene, where tragedy, irony and satire help therapy to move from dia-logos (exchange of discourse) to being there together (cum-loqui).

Keywords: Thanatos, Eros, theatre, Antigone, Casanova, feminism, neutrality

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Pietro Barbetta, Il teatro della terapia di coppia tra commedia, tragedia e satira in "EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE" 25/2016, pp 74-83, DOI: 10.3280/EDS2016-025006