ABSTRACT
This chapter as well as others that follow will focus on working psychotherapeutically with utilizing an integrative individual/systemic model. The therapist can work solely with an individual and engage in "intrasystemic" dynamics for the purpose of healing inner wounds. This process involves shuttling between parts of the inner family, however, if a couple or family is the main focus of treatment, then the therapist engages in shuttling between the inner world of one or more family members and bridges this work on an outer transactional dimension. As the transition is made between the inner experience of one or more family members to the interactional outer dynamics between them, the therapist helps the individual, couples, and/or families attain a new level of integration. When this transformation takes place, there is a new individual, couple, and/or family synthesis. The outcome of this work is that the new realignment of one's individual parts occurs in context to other family members' internal parts, thus a new coherence of the inner and outer dimension of experience is realized.
