Triangle Of Conflict Flashcards
Learn the key aspects of the triangle of conflict theory
What is the main premise of the triangle of conflict?
At the bottom of the triangle are the patient’s true, impulse-laden feelings, outside of conscious awareness. When those emotions rise to a certain degree and threaten to break into conscious awareness, they trigger anxiety. The patient manages this anxiety by deploying defences, which lessen anxiety by pushing emotions back into the unconscious.
Triangle of Conflict
The emotions at the bottom of Malan’s Triangle of Conflict originate in the patient’s past, andMalan’s second triangle, theTriangle of Persons, originally proposed by Menninger, explains that old emotions generated from the past are triggered in current relationships and also get triggered in the relationship with the therapist.
The question of how maladaptive patterns of interpersonal behaviour could arise from early childhood experiences in the family of origin was postulated within psychoanalytic theory. Independent empirical support came from Bowlby’s newly arising field ofAttachment Theory.
Triangle of Persons
Who are the main people?
Dr. David Malan popularized a model of resistance, known as theTriangle of Conflict, which had first been proposed byHenry Ezriel
