Donley M G
Marriage and Family Therapy Training Program, Menninger Foundation (Kansas City Branch), KS.
Fam Process. 1993 Mar;32(1):3-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1993.00003.x.
Until recently, the mother-child relationship was assumed to be the primary relationship affecting the outcome of an individual. This resulted in the mother-child dyad being seen and studied as separate from the family system in which it is embedded. This article asserts that, in order to understand this dyad adequately, one must understand "how" the family functions as an emotional unit that is guided by processes found in evolution and in relationships between living things. It goes beyond describing the family as a system of influence and seeks to account for the universal processes that occur in natural systems. It posits that the triangle is the basic building block of the emotional unit, and proposes a new theoretical dimension for understanding how attachment extends beyond dyads (such as parent-child) to include the emotional unit as a whole. Through triangles, the parent-child relationship is continually influenced by relationship forces operating within the system as a whole.
直到最近，母子关系都被认为是影响个体发展结果的主要关系。这导致母子二元组被视为并被研究为与其所处的家庭系统相分离。本文主张，为了充分理解这个二元组，人们必须理解家庭是“如何”作为一个受进化过程和生物间关系所引导的情感单元发挥作用的。它不仅仅是将家庭描述为一个影响系统，还试图解释自然系统中发生的普遍过程。它假定三角关系是情感单元的基本构建块，并提出了一个新的理论维度，以理解依恋如何从二元组（如亲子关系）扩展到包括整个情感单元。通过三角关系，亲子关系不断受到整个系统内运作的关系力量的影响。
