Humphrey F G
Psychiatr Clin North Am. 1982 Dec;5(3):581-93.
Extramarital sexual relationships constitute one of the most common problems encountered in marital therapy. They present both of the marital partners with highly emotionally charged dilemmas that must be resolved. Once believed to occur because a married person was weak, immoral, or neurotic, they are now understood to occur because of a variety of reasons. While almost a third of these cases end in divorce, others respond to appropriate treatment so that the marriages may be maintained, although with varying degrees of happiness for these couples. Countertransference issues for therapists are major issues in treating these couples and may require special referral procedures.
婚外性关系是婚姻治疗中最常见的问题之一。它们给夫妻双方带来了必须解决的高度情绪化的困境。曾经人们认为婚外性关系的发生是因为已婚者软弱、不道德或神经质，而现在人们明白其发生是由多种原因造成的。虽然几乎三分之一的此类情况以离婚告终，但其他情况通过适当治疗后婚姻得以维持，尽管这些夫妻的幸福程度各不相同。对治疗师而言，反移情问题是治疗这些夫妻时的主要问题，可能需要特殊的转诊程序。
