Couple psychotherapy in post-modernity: changes and possibilities

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the post-modern marriage crisis and the new psychotherapeutic possibilities. The post-modern characteristics are pointed in connection to the development of new marriage and subjective organizations. The effects on the Brazilian culture are summarized, and the conjugality changes implications are relevant to couple psychotherapy in a systemic approach. The "self" epistemological changes are pointed as new psychotherapeutic possible directions.

group psychotherapy; post modernism; marital relations; subjectivity