The voice, myths and rites: family therapy of an obsessive phobic problem

Abstract

The authors present the conception of therapeutic process in family with fobic obsessive issues. The premise is that fobic obsessive symptoms are learned from an authoritative parent presenting the same features. The authors look for relevant relationship that produced the family myth. By using a trigenerational frame composed by: daughter-mother - “voice” (family myth) the therapists create a relational space from where the individuation process can emerge.