Relationship motive

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The clarification- oriented psychotherapy developed by the Bochum-based psychology professor Rainer Sachse assumes that clients with personality disorders encounter a counterpart in a way that is supposed to meet their "basic interactional needs " ( motive level), while they use various strategies to disguise this (" model the double regulation of action ").

Since these strategies are on the one hand maladaptive (i.e., they were once developed to protect the ego, but now do more harm than good), and on the other hand the clients are typically not aware of them, one of the central tasks in therapy is one of the strongest to clarify the patient's effective relationship motives and to make them aware of them so that the previous strategies that led to relationship and communication problems become superfluous. A motivation-oriented relationship design should contribute to the fact that the clients in the therapeutic relationship can forego their previous behavioral strategies and try out new ones.

Sachse names the main motives for relationships:

  • Recognition (also: love, affection, positive definition, respect) - important for narcissistic, self-insecure, passive-aggressive, schizoid, paranoid and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
  • Importance (for other meaning, having value) - important in narcissistic, histrionic, insecure, schizoid and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
  • Reliability , reliable relationship - important in histrionic, insecure and schizoid personality disorder
  • Solidarity , solidary relationship - important in narcissistic, histrionic, dependent, schizoid, paranoid and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
  • (Adequate) autonomy - important in passive-aggressive, paranoid, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
  • Inviolability of borders , territoriality - important in passive-aggressive personality disorder.

literature

  • Rainer Sachse: Personality disorders: guidelines for psychological psychotherapy. Hogrefe, Göttingen et al. (2004), ISBN 3-8017-1803-4 .
  • Rainer Sachse: Clarification-oriented psychotherapy of personality disorders: Basics and concepts (practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders) . Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen; 1st edition (November 19, 2010), ISBN 3-8017-2350-X .
  • Rainer Sachse: Clarification-oriented schema processing: effectively changing dysfunctional schemata. Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen; 1st edition (August 1, 2008), ISBN 3-8017-2190-6 .

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