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Beyond Technique: An Autoethnographic Exploration Of How I Learned To Show Love Towards My Father, Sean D. Davis
Beyond Technique: An Autoethnographic Exploration Of How I Learned To Show Love Towards My Father, Sean D. Davis
The Qualitative Report
I offer an autoethnographic exploration of my experience with the culture of a marriage and family therapist (MFT) in training. As a beginning therapist I assumed that success would be determined primarily by how well I mastered different theoretical models. This belief shifted during an instance in which I was planning to begin differentiating myself from my family of origin using Bowenian techniques. I experienced a profound shift in the way I interacted with my father – and with others – as a result of an interaction completely void of therapeutic technique. I discuss the ways that this experience changed …