| Summary: | Jeffrey J. Magnavita demonstrates his personality-guided relational psychotherapeutic approach with an adult woman in an ongoing abusive and toxic relationship with her mother. Magnavita works with the client to process her emotions while reinforcing the need for her to assert herself with her mother. In addition to ending the cycle of abuse with her mother, the client seeks to control her mistreatment of her own daughter. Magnavita uses mindfulness techniques to assist the client with managing these outbursts directed toward her daughter. He underscores how the absence of parental secure attachments during childhood, maternal rejection, and repeated abuse have resulted in the client's maladaptive patterns of rationalization and self-defeating behaviors. He also guides her through reenacting recent episodes of public humiliation and withdrawal by tapping into and intensifying her feelings of anger toward her mother.
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