Players: Cinderella and the Prince. Activists: The husband may activate the game on his own, or husband and wife may activate it together. Setting: Home. Aim: Husband appeals to wife’s fantasy about meeting a prince who would discover that she is a princess. Game Plan: One evening when he knows his wife “has no plans,” [...]
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Players: Hysterical wife and passive husband. Activist: Husband, with or without wife’s knowledge. Setting: Home or vacation retreat. Aim: Help husband overcome need for wife’s approval by learning to assert himself; stimulate wife’s sexuality by appealing to her unconscious fantasy. Game Plan: The couple can play this game together, or the husband can spring it [...]
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Players: Passive spouse and “psycho” spouse. Activist: Aggressive spouse, without the knowledge or cooperation of passive spouse. Setting: Bathroom. Aim: To enact the very fears that the passive spouse unconsciously harbors, and thereby shock him or her out of the passive mode. Game Plan: This game is a more radical maneuver and thus entails more [...]
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In the bedroom, he begins to make love to her in the way that he knows she likes best. Usually wives have told their husbands over and over what they like, but bored (i.e., angry) husbands usually do not listen, since their wives’ sexual preferences sound like more complaints or demands. All except the most [...]
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Likewise, social and organic diseases often have a psychological component that is somehow related to frustrated sexuality. Prisons hold individuals whose sexual drives have become twisted and whose aggressive drives have become stuck in the mode of trying to destroy the environment that has failed to meet their needs. Maladies such as cancer, heart disease, [...]
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