Couples Conference 2018
Attachment, Differentiation, and Neuroscience in Couples Therapy
Held May 4-6, 2018 in Oakland, CA
The Couples Conferences have become a leading vehicle for learning the applica- tions of the latest research on facilitating treatment with couples. At this Conference, you will learn from leading-edge theorists and practitioners as they define, describe and discuss differing approaches that initially promote closeness and those that move toward managing difference and facilitating differentiation. By the end of this Conference, you will have advanced and refined your own thinking about how to approach the challenge of facilitating intimacy.
Organized by:
Faculty
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Helen E. Fisher, PhD
- A. Steven Frankel, PhD, JD, ABPP
- Harville Hendrix, PhD
- Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD
- Sam Jinich, PhD
- Martha Kauppi, MS MFT
- Peter Pearson, PhD
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Sue Diamond, MA, RCC
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Michele Scheinkman, LCSW
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
All Couples 2018 Recordings
Below is a listing of all our recordings from the 2018 Couples Conference.
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Keynotes | Continuing Education | Therapist Development | Goals of the Therapist
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD | Sue Diamond, MA, RCC
- Duration:
- 1:00:59
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2018
- Short Description:
- Sue Diamond Potts will interview Dr. Ellyn Bader about her 33 years specializing in couples therapy. They will discuss what it was like when she started and how the field has changed. They will especially focus on what Ellyn has learned from consulting to couples therapists from 33 countries. Ellyn will describe common mistakes therapists make and what it takes to help couples and couples therapists evolve.
- Price:
- $0.00 - $29.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Addiction | Keynotes | Continuing Education | Love | Couples Therapy | Neuroscience | Sex and Sexuality
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- Helen E. Fisher, PhD
- Duration:
- 57:05
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2018
- Short Description:
- Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher discusses three brain systems that evolved for mating and reproduction: the sex drive; feelings of intense romantic love; and feelings of deep attachment to a long term partner. She then focuses on her brain scanning research (using fMRI) on romantic rejection and the trajectory of love addiction following rejection. She concludes with discussion of the brain circuits associated with long-term partnership happiness and the future of relationships in the dig
- Price:
- $29.00 - Sale Base Price - $59.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Continuing Education | Love | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Marriage
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD | Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD
- Duration:
- 54:42
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2018
- Short Description:
- Can couples sustain the passion of romantic love? The answer: it depends upon the quality of the interactive space. This lecture will describe a new kind of marriage/ intimate relationship that meets the conditions required for restoring and sustaining the sensation of passionate love.
- Price:
- $29.00 - Sale Base Price - $59.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Continuing Education | Couples Therapy | Gender | Masculinity
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 33:57
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2018
- Short Description:
- At no other time in history have men been so awash in mixed cultural messages and in such a state of transition, confusion, reactivity, and trouble. Despite being basically good hearted, many men continue to make a hash of their relationships. We therapists can help, but not before rethinking some of the sacred cows of therapeutic practice. Men need action and leadership from us, challenging them while still loving the little boy inside them and offering guidance and tools to their inner grown-up.
- Price:
- $0.00 - $29.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Attachment | Neuroscience | Keynotes | Continuing Education | Differentiation | Couples Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- Duration:
- 50:59
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 06, 2018
- Short Description:
- The early 1950s brought us John Bowlby's work on infant attachment, mirrored by Harry Harlow's primate attachment studies on rhesus monkeys. The 50s and 60s saw the advent of Murray Bowen's groundbreaking work on differentiation. The 1970s brought us further with Margaret Mahler's work on separation/individuation and the psychological birth of the human infant. Today, clinicians and researchers alike attempt to validate the developmental theories of Bowlby, Bowen, and Mahler thro
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- $29.00 - Sale Base Price - $59.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Law & Ethics | Continuing Education | Couples Therapy | Therapist Development
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- A. Steven Frankel, PhD, JD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 3:33:07
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2018
- Short Description:
- This six-hour program seeks to provide information and recommendations for mental health professionals whose work includes the assessment and treatment of couples and families. The program begins with an update on legal and ethical developments that affect providers, and then moves to a discussion of risk management strategies for clinicians, including the most critical issues faced by clinicians in their work. We continue with important issues concerning confidentiality and “secrets"
- Price:
- $0.00 - $29.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Continuing Education | Law & Ethics | Couples Therapy | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- A. Steven Frankel, PhD, JD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 1:09:54
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2018
- Short Description:
- This six-hour program seeks to provide information and recommendations for mental health professionals whose work includes the assessment and treatment of couples and families. The program begins with an update on legal and ethical developments that affect providers, and then moves to a discussion of risk management strategies for clinicians, including the most critical issues faced by clinicians in their work. We continue with important issues concerning confidentiality and “secrets"
- Price:
- $29.00 - Sale Base Price - $59.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Addiction | Couples Therapy | Workshops | Continuing Education | Love | Neurobiology | Neuroscience
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- Helen E. Fisher, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:57:48
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2018
- Short Description:
- Biological Anthropologist Helen Fisher discusses four broad basic styles of thinking and behaving associated with four primary brain systems: the dopamine, serotonin, and testosterone and estrogen/oxytocin systems. She discusses why people are predisposed to love one person rather than another (mate choice). She hypothesizes that individuals who primarily express of the constellation of traits linked with each of these brain systems may be predisposed to different forms of love addiction, includ
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- $29.00 - Sale Base Price - $59.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Communication | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 58:30
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2018
- Short Description:
- The secret to helping couples have a powerful, transformative experience in therapy is to get them to deeply explore---while in each other’s presence---their own character structure and family-of-origin trauma. For the therapist, this process involves six steps: arriving at the couple’s relational diagnosis, helping them articulate their repeating loops, getting the backstory of their childhood adaptation, imaginatively reparenting each inner child, loving confrontation, and helping
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Sex and Sexuality | Attachment | Workshops | Couples Therapy | Interviewing
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- Duration:
- 1:59:07
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2018
- Short Description:
- Perhaps the single most discussed issue in couple therapy is sex. This two-hour workshop will lead clinicians through a series of interviewing techniques for examining sexual problems in couples. These techniques include questions to ask, assessment of explicit and implicit somatic answers, and other strategic, bottom- up methods for getting to the crux of the matter. We will also cover typical difficulties many therapists have with frank sexual questioning. We’ll examine attach- ment orga
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Anxiety | Couples Therapy | Relationships
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD | Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:47:37
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 04, 2018
- Short Description:
- Safety is a non-negotiable condition for thriving relationships. This workshop will inform and train participants in a three part process that helps create and sustain emotional safety.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) | Workshops | Attachment | Couples Therapy | Relationships
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Sam Jinich, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:16:10
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2018
- Short Description:
- Secure attachment offers us a potent sense of safety and a way to maintain equilibrium in the presence of danger or threat. These bonds allow us to tolerate and cope with our human frailty. The love one person feels from another has an enormous effect on them, both physically and emotionally. One of the goals of EFT is to help partners see how they are both caught in a recurring pattern of emotional disconnection, triggering each other into aggressively demanding a response or freezing up and sh
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Relationships
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Harville Hendrix, PhD | Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:27:55
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2018
- Short Description:
- Curiosity is the path to wonder. Most workshops focus on processes therapists can learn to help couples remove the constraints to the relationship they want. In this workshop, participants will learn about wonder as the ultimate quality of a thriving relationship and discover techniques that help intimate partners transition from judgment to curiosity and wonder.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Couples Therapy Relationships
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Multicultural | Couples Therapy | Relationships | Polyamory
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Martha Kauppi, MS MFT
- Duration:
- 1:51:58
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2018
- Short Description:
- Are you ready to hear your favorite long-term couple client tell you they are fighting because one of them is interested in exploring polyamory and the other is not? Would you choose to work with a couple who told you on the phone they live and love with 2 other people and some tensions are arising? Many people are exploring consensually non-monogamous relationships, and as a result, related issues are showing up in therapy rooms everywhere. This workshop will debunk myths, distinguish between n
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) | Workshops | Attunement | Couples Therapy | Avoidant
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Sam Jinich, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:07:55
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2018
- Short Description:
- When One or Both Partners are Highly Cognitive or Emotionally Avoidant. Accessing and deepening vulnerable emotions that are at first hidden, unspoken, unknown or masked by reactive and protective emotions is one of the most powerful skills of an emotionally focused couples therapist. Emotionally focused therapists facilitate emotionally moving enactments by guiding avoidant partners to turn to their partner and to share with them about their pain, sadness and fears.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Continuing Education | Marriage | Passive-Aggressiveness | Couples Therapy
- Bundle:
- Learning Track - Couples Starter Kit
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018 | Online Continuing Education
- Faculty:
- Peter Pearson, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:01:25
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- May 05, 2018
- Short Description:
- Passive aggressive spouses challenge even seasoned couple’s therapists. One partner over functions and the other under functions. Both become entrenched in this pattern. And the passive aggressive partner stubbornly resists your best insights and agreements for change. As conventional therapy often falls flat with this couple, I will do a demonstration showing you to stay out of the middle and create an unconventional leverage for change. Leave with a comprehensive framework for changing
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- $29.00 - Sale Base Price - $59.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Developmental Therapy Model | Experiential Therapy
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD | Sue Diamond, MA, RCC
- Duration:
- 1:59:27
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 06, 2018
- Short Description:
- This workshop is designed for couple’s therapists who have trained in the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. Increase your skills in effective confrontation and incisive resolution of intrapsychic conflicts. Bring some of your toughest challenges and join Ellyn Bader and Sue Diamond-Potts to strengthen your ability to confront and transform those unrelenting couples’ impasses.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Narcissism | Personality Disorders | Borderline | Couples Therapy
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- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2018
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- Duration:
- 2:03:49
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 06, 2018
- Short Description:
- For decades, psychoanalytic models of individual therapy were retrofitted into marital treatment models. These approaches tended to be ineffective with character disordered partners. With the recent emergence of polytheoretical, psychobiological approaches to couple therapy, the clinician can now be more effective with character disordered partners. This two hour workshop will help clinicians differentiate between those partners who are psychoneurotic, insecurely attached, or undifferentiated, a
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- $15.00 - Base Price