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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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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

A lot of therapists, particularly those who do some marital therapy but aren’t experts, do a history and say to themselves: “This marriage will never last.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2016

That’s what Johanna and I were doing, going to marital therapy.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2013

"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 Mace, D. R. (David Robert)

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