Mann A M, Lundell F W
Can Med Assoc J. 1977 Apr 9;116(7):772-4.
Conjoint therapy of marital partners is a technique that lends itself to the counseling efforts of health professionals. Its growing use has, however, brought with it seemingly inevitable pitfalls, such as inadequate assessment of individual needs and psychopathology, overzealous application and disregard of certain contraindications, management problems and goal definition that may be unclear to patients or more related to the therapist's personality than to an objective view of the marriage dynamics. Despite the difficulties and pitfalls of this relatively new field, conjoint therapy can be the treatment of choice when the primary difficulties are related to the inability to cope in the marital situation, even though functioning in other social roles is adequate.
夫妻联合治疗是一种适用于健康专业人员咨询工作的技术。然而，其日益广泛的应用也带来了一些似乎不可避免的问题，比如对个体需求和精神病理学评估不足、过度热心的应用以及忽视某些禁忌症、管理问题以及目标定义不明确，这些目标对患者来说可能不清晰，或者更多地与治疗师的个性有关，而非与婚姻动态的客观观点相关。尽管这个相对较新的领域存在困难和问题，但当主要困难与在婚姻状况中无法应对有关，即使在其他社会角色中功能正常时，夫妻联合治疗仍可能是首选的治疗方法。
