Family Semantic Polarities and Positionings: A Semantic Analysis

Ugazio, Valeria; Fellin, Lisa Chiara

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“…One of Ugazio's central theses–recently confirmed by a substantial amount of research (Castiglioni, Faccio, Veronese, & Bell, ; Castiglioni, Veronese, Pepe, & Villegas, ; Faccio, Belloni, & Castelnuovo, ; Faccio et al., ; Ugazio & Fellin, ; Ugazio, Negri, & Fellin, )–is that people with eating, phobic, obsessive‐compulsive disorders, and depression will have grown up in families where certain coherent sets of meaning dominate the conversation. They are the semantics of freedom (phobic disorders), goodness (obsessive‐compulsive disorders), power (eating disorders), and belonging (depression).…”

Section: Negotiating and Construing Meanings Within Couplesmentioning

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“…When a polarity is composed of two poles that belong to different semantics, it must be indicated in bold with an asterisk if it is formulated by the same person and with two asterisks if it is formulated by two different conversational partners (therapist included). These polarities, that seldom appear, are interesting indicators for the evaluation of the semantic cohesion (Ugazio & Fellin, ), a new variable, created by the FSPT. Like Olson's circumplex model of marital and family systems (Olson, ; Olson & Gorall, ), the semantic cohesion concerns togetherness.…”

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“…When someone is born a Venus or a Hercules, it is difficult for members of the family to ignore her beauty or his strength. As soon as beauty and strength come into the conversation, some other members of the family, looking into the mirror, will discover him/herself to be an ugly duckling, while others will realize they are sickly: Hercules will have to protect them (Ugazio & Fellin, , pp. 126‐127).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We identified and classified 33 ISPs and 76 NSPs, not enough to support the qualitative analysis with quantitative data, as in other studies (e.g., Ugazio & Fellin, ; Ugazio et al., ). Consequently, to answer our research questions, we relied only on the qualitative semantic analysis of the 30 analyzed minutes.…”

Section: Looking For Semantic Polarities In the Key Moments Of The Sementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Couple in Love Entangled in Enigmatic Episodes: A Semantic Analysis

Ugazio

2018

J Marital Family Therapy

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The article presents a semantic analysis inspired by the theory of family semantic polarities developed by Ugazio (, ) applying two versions of a coding system, the Family Semantic Grid (FSG), to a couple session with Tom Andersen as a consultant. One version (FSG II) detects the narrated semantic polarities (NSPs) emerging during the session from the transcript, whereas the other (FSG III) identifies the interactive semantic polarities (ISPs) from the video recording. Both the NSPs and the ISPs are classified according to four sets of meaning called the semantic of freedom, goodness, power, and belonging. The analysis puts forward some hypothesis about the pattern that entangles the couple and highlights Andersen's contributions to overcome the problem troubling the couple.

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A Couple in Love Entangled in Enigmatic Episodes: A Semantic Analysis

Ugazio

2018

J Marital Family Therapy

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“… 3 3 This methodology has already been applied to other studies (Ugazio & Fellin, 2016; Ugazio & Guarnieri, 2018; Ugazio et al, 2015, 2020). …”

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The ‘Arab spring’ within an intercultural couple. Does the unmentioned ‘racial difference’ matter?

Ugazio

Singh²

2021

Journal of Family Therapy

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Can the meaning‐making within an intercultural couple, and between this couple and their therapist, help us to understand the couple's bitter conflict and the difficulties of dealing with it in therapy? This single case study answers this question, presenting a semantic analysis inspired by Ugazio's model of family semantic polarities. The analysis was carried out by applying the family semantic grid II to 140 min from three video‐recorded and transcribed sessions with the couple. The result suggests that the misunderstandings and disappointments that fed the couple's conflict were connected with the lack of semantic cohesion within the couple. They constructed meanings during the therapeutic conversation using two different semantic worlds: the semantics of power and of freedom. The analysis also suggests some possible strategies to overcome the couple's conflict, and raises some questions about how to address racial differences during therapy. An intercultural couple's bitter conflict is clarified by a semantic analysis (SA) which highlights the couple's low semantic cohesion. The SA suggests focusing on the emotions – shame and courage – underlying the partners' dominant semantics – power and freedom – and anchoring the meanings to all the family members. Therapists should address ‘race’ and racism with intercultural couples, even if such conversations do not emerge spontaneously in their narrated stories.

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Semantic Polarities in CFT

Ugazio¹

2017

Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy

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Family Semantic Polarities and Positionings: A Semantic Analysis

Cited by 6 publications

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A Couple in Love Entangled in Enigmatic Episodes: A Semantic Analysis

A Couple in Love Entangled in Enigmatic Episodes: A Semantic Analysis

The ‘Arab spring’ within an intercultural couple. Does the unmentioned ‘racial difference’ matter?

Semantic Polarities in CFT

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