Well, it's a beginning!
Mar. 8th, 2002 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorp(I can't remember what show/commercial that subject line is from. It's spoken by a little kid. And now it's in my head. ARGH!)
There are a myriad of approaches to marital and family therapy available to today’s clinicians. These approaches offer different techniques and methods of insight that can be used to alter family patterns in such a way as to bring about healthier, more productive family functioning. One such approach is existential family therapy, a collection of therapeutic techniques developed by Jim Lantz (2001; March 2001; 2000; 1994; 1992) and extrapolated from the work of Viktor Frankl.
In this paper, the author will assess and treat the family of Willy Loman as developed in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1949). A method of evaluating the Lomans’ treatment will be provided as well. The paper will open with a description and overview of Lantz’s existential family therapy.
[Update: I remember now! It was a commercial with a little boy and a little girl sitting on the steps of a house. Boy says, "Will you marry me?" Girl says, "Where's my ring?" He gives her something. Girl says, "A LifeSaver?" Boy says, "Well, it's a beginning." Girl shrugs. Boy says, "Don't worry, we can live with my mother."]
There are a myriad of approaches to marital and family therapy available to today’s clinicians. These approaches offer different techniques and methods of insight that can be used to alter family patterns in such a way as to bring about healthier, more productive family functioning. One such approach is existential family therapy, a collection of therapeutic techniques developed by Jim Lantz (2001; March 2001; 2000; 1994; 1992) and extrapolated from the work of Viktor Frankl.
In this paper, the author will assess and treat the family of Willy Loman as developed in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1949). A method of evaluating the Lomans’ treatment will be provided as well. The paper will open with a description and overview of Lantz’s existential family therapy.
[Update: I remember now! It was a commercial with a little boy and a little girl sitting on the steps of a house. Boy says, "Will you marry me?" Girl says, "Where's my ring?" He gives her something. Girl says, "A LifeSaver?" Boy says, "Well, it's a beginning." Girl shrugs. Boy says, "Don't worry, we can live with my mother."]
