With the elucidation of the life positions of “I'm OK, You're Irrelevant” (I + U?) and “I'm not-OK, You're Irrelevant” (I − U?) by White (1994), a new direction or focus of treatment is opened up. The purpose of this article is to examine some of the treatment options that are provided by looking at psychopathology in the way these life positions do.
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