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marital therapy

American  

noun

  1. a psychotherapeutic treatment for married couples, who are seen by a therapist both individually and jointly to assist them in resolving various problems related to their marriage.


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He has argued that she did not air those allegations privately during the course of marital therapy sessions the couple participated in during the weeks after his resignation.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022

Reflecting on the conflict between her parents, Sophie Freud wryly observed that her grandfather did “not believe in marital therapy, at least in this case.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2022

Judy Small — Michaela Watkins — takes them in and they go down the rabbit hole of marital therapy.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2020

But good marital therapy can be good individual therapy, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2016

"How do our marriage enrichment groups differ from group marital therapy on the one hand, and from encounter groups on the other?"

From Marriage Enrichment Retreats Story of a Quaker Project by D. R. (David Robert) Mace

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