DR. JERRY SUGERMAN: Why don't we talk about the Indians?
ADMIRAL MORRISON: The Indians. Again with the Indians.
CLARA MORRISON: Oh, doctor, must we revisit that horrible episode?
DR. SUGERMAN: If a child of four years sees any kind of death – like the dying Indians your son saw after that car accident – the trauma can manifest itself slowly, gradually, throughout the course of his adolescence. And that makes the trauma harder to recognize.
JIM MORRISON: THE END OF OUR ELABORATE PLANS!
ADMIRAL MORRISON: God, do you have to keep having outbursts, Jim? First the supermarket, now here?
CLARA MORRISON: (crying) He's never this way at home! He just sits and listens to music with the bass turned down!
DR. SUGERMAN: Jim, count back from 10, and breathe… there. Now let's take this slowly and calmly. What do you remember about the accident?
JIM MORRISON: I remember… I remember the light, the fractured sun… the squall of the wounded eagle, flying on his side, brushing against God with one eye… the progress of mechanics, and the mystic's slump, caterwauling…
ADMIRAL MORRISON: Oh, for crying out loud. Did you pick this up from that goddamn English teacher?
CLARA MORRISON: Georgie, please…
ADMIRAL MORRISON: Please nothing, Clara! That goddamn teacher's a Communist! Or one of those free-thinkers! With that little Errol Flynn moustache and the elbow patch! That man's teaching our kids, doctor! He has access to our children!
DR. SUGERMAN: Let's try to stay focused, Admiral. This is Jim's time. Go ahead, Jim.
JIM MORRISON: And then the Great Spirit! The keeper of balance! It seeped from the shaman's wrinkled carcass like a smoking cloth! As it approached me, I eyed it with knowing! It persuaded me to inhale, to open up the portals of my personal infinity! I breathed, I breathed! I released my thoughts to the carriage of the wind! And then, like a vapor, the Great Spirit came into me!
ADMIRAL MORRISON: Military school. Why didn't I just put him in military school?
JIM MORRISON: My meat is real! Your ballroom days are over, baby!
CLARA MORRISON: Oh, God, it's just like one of those pamphlets!
JIM MORRISON: TURN OUT THE LIGHTS. TURN OUT THE LIGHTS. YOU GOTTA THRILL MY SOUL. YOU GOTTA BEEP A GUNK A CHOOKA, HONK HONK HONK.
ADMIRAL MORRISON: That's it! Jim, you're grounded!
DR. SUGERMAN: Jim, I think what you really need to do is open up to your feelings with your father and be direct about it. For just a minute, don't be a poet – don't strive so hard to be imagistic. Just talk to him simply, man to man. And remember to own your feelings – say "I am," "I want," and so forth.
JIM MORRISON: …All right.
DR. SUGERMAN: So turn and look at your dad, and look him directly in his eyes. Don't worry about how it comes out. Okay?
JIM MORRISON: Okay.
DR. SUGERMAN: Go ahead.
JIM MORRISON: Father?
ADMIRAL MORRISON: Yes, son?
JIM MORRISON: I want to kill you.
ADMIRAL MORRISON: See? See what I've been talking about? Total disrespect for authority! I gotta keep the revolver locked up in the safe now, is that it? I gotta worry about your killing me now? Seriously? I got enough to worry about without some little beatnik in diapers standing behind me raising a knife in his hand! Good grief, Jim! What did your mother and I ever do to screw you up this bad?
JIM MORRISON: Actually, I'm glad you mentioned mother, because I have something I've always needed to tell her as well…
CLARA MORRISON: Go ahead, Jimmy. I'm all ears, pumpkin.
JIM MORRISON: Mother… I want to…
DR. SUGERMAN: Oh, darn it, our time's up. Jim, hold that thought 'til next week, okay?
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In Family Therapy, the family is seen as a "whole" system, rather than just as the sum of its individual members. As with individual and group therapy, Family Therapy is used to approach a wide variety of therapeutic goals.
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In addition to that, based on what I have read online, the distinctive feature of family therapy is its perspective and analytical framework rather than the number of people present at a therapy session. Specifically, family therapists are relational therapists: They are generally more interested in what goes on between individuals rather than within one or more individuals, although some family therapists—in particular those who identify as psychodynamic, object relations, intergenerational, EFT, or experiential family therapists—tend to be as interested in individuals as in the systems those individuals and their relationships constitute. Depending on the conflicts at issue and the progress of therapy to date, a therapist may focus on analyzing specific previous instances of conflict, as by reviewing a past incident and suggesting alternative ways family members might have responded to one another during it, or instead proceed directly to addressing the sources of conflict at a more abstract level, as by pointing out patterns of interaction that the family might have not noticed.
Many practitioners are skilled in family therapy and marital counseling in Massachusetts. At times these can be more appropriate than individual therapy.
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