Parental loyalty.(helping patients adopt positive parental behaviors over negative ones while maintaining their loyalty to their parents)

Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association,  November, 2001  by Baer, Michael

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One of the fascinating concepts in psychotherapy is parental loyalty, It is part of the little recognized, underlying and powerful drive that causes people to do precisely what they claim they don't wish to do. It is the force that causes a person to act like his father although he recognizes that the specific behavior was inimical to his father and is now defeating to him.

It is the abusive behavior that his mother displayed that he swore "when I grow up I will never act that way toward my children." It is the self-defeating behaviors of his parents that he recognized as a ...

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