CC05 Workshop 01 - After the Affair: Trauma and Reconnection - Janis Spring, PhD, ABPP
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Affairs | Couples Therapy | Trauma
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2005
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 1:55:56
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 04, 2005
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description: This workshop offers a framework for guiding couples through the trauma and confusion that follow an affair. Blending clinical insight with personal narrative, it explains the hurt partner’s destabilizing losses, the unfaithful partner’s ambivalence and idealization, and the powerful forces that drive both obsession and romantic love. Participants learn a three stage model for naming trauma, making thoughtful decisions about the future, and rebuilding trust through accountability, truth telling, and meaningful behavioral change.
Syllabus Description: Infidelity is not necessarily about sex, but about secrets and the violation of trust. In this workshop, Dr. Spring will map out the trauma of an affair (or other intimate wounds) and help partners think through whether or not, and how to reconcile.
Educational Objectives:
- To describe how hurt and unfaithful partners react differently to an affair.
- To describe how these differences can be used to promote healing.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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Faculty
Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP Related Seminars and Products
Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board certified clinical psychologist and nationally acclaimed expert on issues of trust, intimacy, and forgiveness. Her first book, After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, has sold more than a half million copies and was a Books for a Better Life Award finalist in the categories of Best First Book and Best Relationship Book. The completely updated second edition (2012) includes a new chapter on affairs in cyberspace. How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To, was a Books for a Better Life Award finalist in the category of Best Psychology Book. Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent, a Living Well Award Silver Medalist, captures the extraordinary, ordinary personal challenges and moments of grace that come with caregiving and growing old.