Abstract

Résumé
La justice doit-elle rester cantonnée aux droits ou a-t-elle un espace dans les recherches cliniques et les options thérapeutiques ? Le « siècle du psychisme » s’est focalisé sur l’inconscient et a négligé la dynamique concrète d’un « juste » équilibre du don et du contre-don propre aux échanges familiaux. L’option reste toujours écartée par la psychanalyse familiale et le courant systémique. La première assimile les attaches familiales à des fantasmes de groupe, le second à des interactions gouvernées par les règles et le mythe du système.

Using a dyadic design, we examined associations between adult attachment and relational ethics in a sample of 69 mixed-gender couples seeking therapy at a university clinic. Results showed significant variance between couples’ reports of relational ethics, explained by male partners’ attachment avoidance and anxiety styles. Overall, when attachment anxiety was high, partners themselves experienced greater relational ethics, but the other partner experienced lesser relational ethics. Additionally, some important gender differences emerged.

Using a dyadic design, we examined associations between adult attachment and relational ethics in a sample of 69 mixedgender
couples seeking therapy at a university clinic. Results showed significant variance between couples’ reports of
relational ethics, explained by male partners’ attachment avoidance and anxiety styles. Overall, when attachment anxiety
was high, partners themselves experienced greater relational ethics, but the other partner experienced lesser relational ethics.

Contextual therapy posits that a truly comprehensive grasp of human existence is composed of individual and relational
realities. The Relational Ethics Scale (RES) is the only validated instrument to measure relational ethics, one of the relational
realities’ four dimensions, which was theorized by Boszormenyi-Nagy. The RES measures people’s perception about
constructs of loyalty, entitlement, trust and justice in their family of origin and in their current and significant relationships.