A tapestry of red thread and emotional blueprints: Poetic feeling in brief dynamic therapy

摘要

The author notes the contribution that both the Triangle of Conflict and the Triangle of Persons have made to the conceptualisation of a focus and its use in clinical work in brief dynamic therapy. He goes on to point out how the Triangle of Conflict has a more central position in those approaches which focus upon eliciting affect, whereas the Triangle of Persons has retained a more predominant position in the process of identifying narrative patterns in relational approaches. He outlines the ways in which narrative patterns contribute to the development and maintenance of the personality and how this in turn has major implications for clinical practice. He identifies a newly developing synthesis of those approaches which employ the Triangle of Conflict to elicit affect and those which employ the Triangle of Persons to explore narrative patterns. He illustrates these themes with a case example.