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Psychogenetics in Redecision Therapy: The Next Generation of Couples Work

Pages 121-129
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Like most traditional counselors, redecision transactional analysis therapists assume that difficulties in couple relationships stem from the projection of unresolved parentchild relationship difficulties from childhood onto adult partners. A new approach uses the Psychogenetic Profile to investigate the troubled couple relationship between the clients' parents in childhood, alerting redecision and transactional analysis therapists to the amazing repetitions in transgenerational couple scripts. Corrective reimprinting occurs as clients role play their childhood parents resolving these historical couple issues with each other, issues that had long ago been introjected by example into the clients' Parent ego states during childhood. Left untreated, the unconscious “Inner Couple Imprint” will become the client's only couple imprint for his or her own relationships later in adulthood. This article introduces regeneration and shows how the psychogenetic system integrated into redecision therapy creates the next generation of couples work. A case example is provided to illustrate the process.

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Anne Teachworth

Phyllis B. Jenkins, M.A., LMFT, CGP, a Regular Member of ITAA for over 30 years, is in private practice specializing in couples, individual, and group therapy as well as group supervision for professionals, in San Jose, California, U.S.A. She is a Diplomat and president of the worldwide Redecision Therapy Association. A former Pacific regional representative of the USA TA Association, Phyllis is the new president-elect of the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society. She holds professional certifications in hypnotherapy, EMDR, Process, gestalt, and redecision therapy and also is a Certified Group Psychotherapist sanctioned by the American Group Psychotherapy Association. In addition to training and supervision groups, she conducts training programs and demonstrations and does presentations in redecision, gestalt, process, psychogenetics, and transactional analysis concepts at professional training centers, universities, and conferences regionally, nationally, and internationally. She can be reached at the Redecision Institute of the Pacific, 1438 Hamilton Way, San Jose, California, 95125, USA; email: .
Anne Teachworth, CGT, FAPA, CPC, is director and founder of the Gestalt Institute of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.; developer of the Psychogenetic System (1990); and author of Why We Pick The Mates We Do (1996), History Repeats Itself (2010), and many articles and chapters on transgenerational couple therapy. A Fellow of the American Psychotherapy Association and an associate member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, Anne began her therapy career studying transactional analysis. A ITAA Regular Member, she was recently the southeastern regional representative of the USA TA Association. Anne is also the owner of Gestalt Institute Press, a publishing company in New Orleans. An early neurolinguistic programming (NLP) trainer, in 1987 Anne and Richard Bandler, the codeveloper of NLP, filmed The Art of Flirtation, a film that teaches a combination of NLP and “The Flirting Class” (1978), which is the popular seminar Anne developed to teach social skills to the newly separated and divorced “single again” community in New Orleans. Anne is in private practice specializing in premarital, couple, and parenting therapy. She offers training programs in her psychogenetic system mainly in New Orleans, San Francisco, and New York. Anne can be reached at by writing Anne Teachworth, Director of The Relationship Center, 433 Metairie Road, #113, Metairie/New Orleans, Louisiana, 70005, U.S.A.; email: ; www.teachworth.com and www.whywepickthemateswedo.com.