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Using Redecision Therapy to Resolve Postdivorce Impasses and Loss

Pages 130-143
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article outlines a redecision therapy model for grief work and describes its practical application to psychotherapy for postdivorce impasses and loss. The primary focus is on strategies that help clients to let go emotionally and say “good-bye” to an exspouse or former partner. Additionally, material from redecision theory and practice is presented for resolving issues that often stand between the client and a successful goodbye. These include problematic early childhood decisions that lead to adverse postdivorce adjustment and problematic decisions made in response to the divorce itself. Although a rudimentary knowledge of transactional analytic theory and gestalt therapy two-chair work is assumed, psychotherapists of other persuasions can incorporate the strategies described here into most theoretical and methodological frameworks.

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Richard Steinberg

Richard Steinberg, Ph.D., has been a psychologist in Santa Barbara, California, at Sansum Medical Clinic since 1981 and codirector of Santa Barbara Behavioral Health since 1990. He conducts a general practice of psychology with an emphasis on individual, marital, and family psychotherapy. He specializes in redecision therapy, having trained extensively for many years with Dr. Robert and Mary Goulding and in more recent years with Dr. John Gladfelter. Dr. Steinberg has practiced redecision therapy for 30 years and has given professional trainings in redecision therapy for psychotherapists in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He can be contacted by writing Richard Steinberg, Ph.D., Sansum Medical Clinic, 317 W. Pueblo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105,U.S.A.; email: .
 

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