ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship-focused method that a social worker may utilize in order to get parties or partners to better adjust to each other's needs. It discusses what the consequences are when partners don't respond to each other's signals anymore. The chapter also discusses what light the study of territory sheds on friction in relationships and transgressional behaviour. It examines what is meant by relational sources of tension? The chapter also examines what kind of insights does the study of human territory offer for relational bottlenecks? The relationship-focused method focuses on identifying, eliminating and reducing bottlenecks and blockages in the communication between two parties, such as between spouses or partners, but also between family members, between two colleagues or between employer and employee. Territorial aggression and transgressional behaviour in human territories have grave consequences for identity, security and freedom. The social worker evaluates where the tension spans are according to the individual partners.
