TY - JOUR
AU1 - Gonçalves, Miguel M.
AU2 - Ribeiro, António P.
AU3 - Stiles, William B.
AU4 - Conde, Tatiana
AU5 - Matos, Marlene
AU6 - Martins, Carla
AU7 - Santos, Anita
AB -  Abstract According to the author's narrative model of change, clients may maintain a problematic self-stability across therapy, leading to therapeutic failure, by a mutual in-feeding process, which involves a cyclical movement between two opposing parts of the self. During innovative moments (IMs) in the therapy dialogue, clients’ dominant self-narrative is interrupted by exceptions to that self-narrative, but subsequently the dominant self-narrative returns. The authors identified return-to-the-problem markers (RPMs), which are empirical indicators of the mutual in-feeding process, in passages containing IMs in 10 cases of narrative therapy (five good-outcome cases and five poor-outcome cases) with females who were victims of intimate violence. The poor-outcome group had a significantly higher percentage of IMs with RPMs than the good-outcome group. The results suggest that therapeutic failures may reflect a systematic return to a dominant self-narrative after the emergence of novelties (IMs). 
TI - The role of mutual in-feeding in maintaining problematic self-narratives: Exploring one path to therapeutic failure
JF - Psychotherapy Research
DO - 10.1080/10503307.2010.507789
DA - 2011-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-role-of-mutual-in-feeding-in-maintaining-problematic-self-MF6FkTkZ48
SP - 27
EP - 40
VL - 21
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -