A husband and wife begin going to therapy to work on some marital issues. The husband reports that he has developed a habit over the past few years of being late to meet his wife. They realize through therapy that this problem began around the same time that the couple began having relationship difficulties. His wife had lost interest in sex and this made him feel rejected and angry about waiting helplessly for his wife’s interest to return. He turned his experiences with his wife around, quite unconsciously, by developing a habit of making her wait on him to meet up with her. This effectively put his wife in his shoes and made her wait helplessly at the hands of another. Uncovering these feelings in therapy allowed the couple to gradually think about their cause and how to express their feelings productively in words instead of as unconscious destructive actions.
indicate which approach to psychotherapy is being described; psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, or cognitive.