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KMID : 1025820180260030379
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Family and Family Therapy
2018 Volume.26 No. 3 p.379 ~ p.401
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The Cognition Change Process of a Sexless Couple
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Kim Young-Ae
Park Tai-Young
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study explored the cognition change process of a sexless couple during nine sessions of family therapy.
Methods: The researchers used Prochaska and Norcross's transtheoretical analysis model to analyze verbatim transcripts of nine counseling sessions.
Results: The concepts found during the “pre-contemplation stage” included emotional divorce, the husband’s emotional repression and loss of identity, and the avoidance of sexual communication. The concepts found during “the contemplation stage” included the recognition of emotions transferred between spouses, a disrespected husband, an enmeshed relationship between the husband and his mother, and dysfunctional communication patterns transmitted from the family of origin. The concepts found during the “preparation stage” were advice on disciplining children, attempts at dysfunctional emotional expression, and attempts at expression of opinions. The concepts found during “the action stage” included focusing on one’s own problem, a pitiable husband, attempts at new connection with the husband, the wife’s ambivalent feelings about her mother-in-law, and restructuring marital intimacy through functional communication patterns. Lastly, in the “maintenance stage,” the couple respected each other and formed a new marital life focused on the nuclear family.
Conclusions: Based on these findings, the authors suggested family therapy strategies for treating sexless couples.
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KEYWORD
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cognition change process, sexless couple, family therapy
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