Monday, Feb, 24, 2020 09.30 AM to 11.30 AM EST Via Live Interactive Webinar ONLY Course Description: Freud never wrote a dedicated book about couples, but some of his most classical insights can be effectively applied to couples in a most profound and practical manner. We will begin with a review of some familiar concepts and expand on Freudian object relation theory. We will discuss how object relations are established and developed in order to scrutinize why psychotherapy with couples is so complicated. We’ll acknowledge why couples so often erupt with conflicts and why it is so difficult, but so important, to tolerate the otherness of our dearest others– children, spouse, parents and of our clients as well. We will disclose why respecting the autonomy of others, their separateness and maintaining love relationships –is challenging, and yet so vital.
We will explore why are we so attracted to the FAMILIAR in our partners but Resist their STRANGENESS and why it is so easy to destruct love relations and so difficult to re-establish them? We will cover a lively illustration using 2 or more case studies.
This course will help participants acknowledge why we, the therapists, tend so easily to project our own familiarities. It will help us find ways to help our couples- patients to understand that their tendency to destroy love relationships is linked to reverberations of childhood memory traces that overrule their life, facing frustrations, narcissistic injuries, and trauma. We will explore what’s needed for and from each partner like patient and therapist, parent and child, as well as between spouses in order to establish the Art of Couplehood.
Principals of psychoanalytic-psychodynamic theory can help psychotherapists and patients to re-create a better couplehood relations. Part I: Foundations of couples, conflicts and insights Part II; Case studies; Q & A Learning Outcomes
• Participants will discover the impact of childhood experiences on couplehood. • Participants will gain at least five basic psychoanalytic-psychodynamic concepts of the complexity of couplehood. • Participants will learn the different experiences of love according to the developmental stages • Participants will gain four methods to enable spouses to enjoy love in their Art of Couplehood while dealing with their conflict of interests, aggressiveness and tendency to destruct.
Preview attachment Outstanding CE trainings for therapists3.pdf