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Imago relationship therapy can be really used for the purpose of improving relationships between couples. Most of the couples are facing enormous problems in their relationships today because of long distance jobs due to which a certain anxiety develops between the couples. Such couples need counseling to get rid of their martial discord. Imago relationship therapy is a form of marriage therapy founded by PhD. Degree holder and author of, relationship guides like ‘Keeping the love you find: a Personal Guide”. He has done his education and training from the Tampa University and still does research work there on marriage counseling. Here are some of the important doctrines that he had advocated as a part of the Imago relationship therapy.
• Human beings are born total and complete.
• Human beings are emotionally hurt during the initial stages of development and socialization by their primary caretakers, generally unknowingly.
• All the people have a very composite image of every positive and negative attribute that is present in a persons’ personality which is Imago. This image forms a blueprint or a Xerox of whom we would like to might marry.
• All the people tend to marry a person who is a perfect match to their Imago match, in short, someone who completely fits up the composite image of our parents or guardians. This is quite important because according to the Imago relationship therapy, a person tends to marry to heal up the emotional wounds created by their parents, to finish the unfinished work of childhood. The criteria behind this marriage theory are that our life partner or the basic love partner should possess all the traits of a parent.
• Marriage is essentially a romantic business and the automatic selection process of nature whereby a marriage with the right partner can heal up the childhood wounds. Even a marriage can also be a form of parent counseling and eventual growth of one’s personality.
• The Power struggle starts up in a relationship as soon as a commitment is made to a person. The Power Struggle is quite necessary, because the frustrations that are imbedded in a person's mind lay down the foundation for recuperation and growth.
• The aim of Imago Relationship Therapy is to bring peace to our mind and to match the needs of our alert mind with the topic of the requirements of unconscious mind. The objective of this kind of marriage counseling is to assist the clients in developing observant, intimate, and dedicated relationships with their spouses.
• With professional marriage counseling degree holders, couples who are facing martial discords are able to indulge in structured conversations to resolve their problems. These conversations are initiated by the imago therapist and slowly they start taking place without the therapist’s presence.
• The core objective of an imago therapist is to align our subconscious mind with those of partners’ personality. The subconscious mind takes a decision about our life partner. The chief practice of Imago therapy is the famous "Couple's Dialogue," where the two people engage in an organized conversation, in the absence or presence of an Imago Therapist. .
• This organized conversation in the Imago relationship therapy includes a Mirroring or repeating of each spoken statement between the couples, its summarization and its adequate Validation by the facts. At the end of this counseling, the couples are able to emphasize with each other’s problems and their needs.
Needless to say, the Imago relationship therapy is a very effective way to bring harmony between the two partners in a matrimonial relationship.
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