가트만(Gottman)의 부부관계 모형과 부부치료 이론

Gottman s sound marital house model and couple therapy: analyses and evaluations in terms of affect

Gottman’s Sound Marital House model and couple therapy were analyzed in terms of affect. First of all, his understanding of interactive behaviors, perception, and physiology as the core triad of the couple interaction and affect was examined. They constitute his model and therapy. His model is consisted of four levels and seven stories. Its first level includes marital friendship and capacity to form three stories of positive affect in nonconflict situations. The three stories are identified as love maps, the fondness and admiration system, and emotional bank account containing turning toward versus turning away. Its next level is the fourth story of Positive Sentiment Override or positive perspective. Its next level is the fifth story of regulating conflict. This includes four basic skills of effective problem solving, dialogue with perpetual problems, and physiological soothing. Its final level is composed of two stories. The sixth story lies in making dreams and aspirations come true. And the seventh story lies in creating shared meanings such as rituals, narratives, myths, and metaphors. His couple therapy are consisted of five stages; first, moving from gridlock to dialogue; second, processing a fight without the therapist; third, establishing six social skills; fourth, building friendship as the base for effective repair; last, fading the therapist. His model and therapy was evaluated in terms of postmodernism. Its constructionism was respected. But its dependance upon the correlational researches, idealization of marriage, and elitism were criticized. A couple of challenges are derived from his model and therapy for the Christian counseling in the Korean Protestantism. Its emphasis of congregations’dependance and negative affects were challenged.