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Parterapi (Couples Therapy) - Working to make marriage work out.

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Way up at the northern tip of Europe is a little country of 6 million people in which separation and divorce are an everyday experience. In Denmark, most school kids, nearly 1 out of every 5, have two addresses, two telephone numbers and a pocket calendar to keep track of where they sleep and eat.

No wonder, therefore, that Parterapi, the Danish word for couples therapy, is such a well known concept and the order of the day for so many Danish couples. Everyone is aware of the pain, frustration and waste of time, money and effort caused by a relationship gone wrong. And many work hard at trying to do something about it.

Here's how it works: The couple meets with the therapist for one and half hours once a week or every 10 days, often after work. Another option is working in groups of 4-5 couples, usually with the presence of 2 therapists, one male, one female. Groups of couples meet and work, learning through practice and by watching other couples work, how to improve their own relationship. Usually, after 3-5 sessions, things start to change - often for the better.

The two key factors that are addressed in couples therapy, aside from any specific individual problems such as e.g. alcoholism, physical violence or drug abuse, are awareness and communication. By awareness is meant an increase and sharpening of consciousness about what we do, how we do it and the consequences of what we do, to each other and to ourselves. Working in Parterapi on increasing awareness involves training and exercises, often simple and quite straightforward, with surprising results and many "ah-ha" experiences for both participants and onlookers.

Awareness training may include learning how to pay attention to signals from our body such as sweating, blushing, breathing, increased heartbeat or to particular behavior patterns e.g. silence, workaholism. Many people find it quite surprising to chart their behaviors and to find underlying patterns to which they have been oblivious or which they didn't understand.

Practice and training in communication involves learning (or re-learning) how to listen effectively and how to respond respectfully and adequately. Learning not to respond to the feeling of being attacked by resorting to excuses or apologies is a major step for many people. Practice in using the first person pronoun "I", instead of "One" or "They" and appreciating the improved reactions from other people is a real eye opener for most people undergoing a course of therapy.

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Relationship problems? Ilan Wolffberg is an American psychotherapist residing in Denmark for over 30 years. For more information on Parterapi or on Communication as they say in Danish.



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