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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Transference / Countertransference
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Otto Kernberg, MD
- Duration:
- 2:24:50
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2008
- Short Description:
- This workshop will summarize the overall technical principles of interpretive intervention in sessions of couples therapy. Economics and dynamic criteria of intervention, analysis of transference and countertransference will be explored together with the setting up of basic frames for the interaction in the sessions. Clinical examples will illustrate these approaches.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Couples Therapy Transference
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) | Trauma | Couples Therapy | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Sue Johnson, EdD
- Duration:
- 2:14:02
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2008
- Short Description:
- This workshop will offer a theoretical and clinical orientation to the treatment of trauma, personal and relational, in couples therapy. The regulation of emotion and the healing power of attachment events will be emphasized.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Intimacy | LGBTQ
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 2:00:39
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 26, 2008
- Short Description:
- The story of sex in committed modern couples is one that often tells of a dwindling desire that includes a long list of sexual alibis, claiming to explain the inescapable death of Eros. The absence of fantasy, the proliferation of pornography and affairs, as well as a lack of understanding of the nature of erotic desire all contribute to the predicament. This workshop examines the cultural pressures that shape domesticated sex and the puzzling inverse correlation between greater emotional intimacy and the loss of sexual desire.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Conflict | Couples Therapy | Trauma
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Peter Pearson, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:19:30
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2008
- Short Description:
- High conflict and chronically distresses add to each others’ trauma while triggering historical trauma. Reducing, calming or eliminating the emotional triggers is an essential part of changing their negative ingrained patterns. See a live demonstration and/or experience a process to bring about immediate relief of painful memories (and sometimes) not even having to talk about them.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Conflict Couples Therapy Trauma
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Neuroscience | Intimacy | Attachment | Neurobiology
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- Duration:
- 2:08:28
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2008
- Short Description:
- Is our brain built for love or war, connection or self-preservation? The attachment drive for a secure base involves neurological and neuro-endocrine systems and subsystems that determine such things as proximity seeking and contact maintenance. Couples most commonly enter therapy due to repeated, anticipated, and intense periods of mutual dysregulation whereby attachment injuries and adaptations become reanimated. In order to make the most of attachment theory, the psychotherapist must incorporate a working knowledge of the neurobiological processes that underlie all primary attachment relationships.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Multicultural | Sex and Sexuality | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 2:16:00
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2008
- Short Description:
- Couples’ expectations about the role of sexuality in intimate relationships have changed dramatically over the past 40 years. We will explore the main ideas of the romantic ideal: how we want our partner to fulfill our needs for connection, belonging and continuity, as well as give the sense of transcendence, mystery and passion. Examining the cultural values of love and respect, freedom and responsibility, and interdependence vs. autonomy, we will map a culturally relevant approach to work with the dilemmas of desire in couples. We also will probe the difference between clearly assigned gender role repartition and the post-feminist egalitarian model.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Addiction | Attachment | Couples Therapy | Narcissism | Psychology | Personality Disorders | Avoidant
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- Duration:
- 2:24:28
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2008
- Short Description:
- Comparisons have been made between severe avoidant attachment and disorders of the self such as antisocial personality, schizoid personality, and narcissistic personality. Each of these disorders, including avoidant attachment, can be grouped together as one-person psychological organizations in that they operate outside of a truly interactive dyadic system, and primarily rely upon themselves for stimulation and calming via auto-regulation. The chronic need for “alone time” can take many surprising forms throughout the lifespan, directly impacting romantic relationships.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Neuroscience | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Louis Cozolino, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:23:03
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2008
- Short Description:
- In the course of human evolution, our brains have been shaped by countless adaptational challenges resulting in an organ functioning simultaneously in the conscious present and our primitive and hidden past. This presentation will explore aspects of the human brain which make sustained intimate relationships both possible and problematic.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Conversation Hours | Couples Therapy | Differentiation | Behavioral Psychology | Developmental Psychology | Family Systems | Individual Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference 2009 | Couples Conference | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Duration:
- 32:46
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- A comprehensive exploration of differentiation in couples therapy, revealing how partners can overcome conflict avoidance, express authentic desires, and navigate complex relationship dynamics. Through video demonstrations and clinical insights, Ellyn Bader illuminates strategies for helping couples embrace vulnerability, address hidden tensions, and foster deeper intimacy by courageously confronting personal and relational challenges.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Conversation Hours | Couples Therapy | Communication | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 52:28
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- CC09 Conversation Hour 02 - How to Improve a Relationship without Talking - Pat Love, EdD
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Grandiosity | Shame | Therapist Techniques
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:10:41
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- This keynote introduces principles of Relational Life Therapy (RLT), focusing on relationality as a human birthright and the potential for character change. Core strategies include addressing shame and grandiosity, using boundaries and self-esteem as diagnostic tools, and emphasizing practical relational skills. A case example illustrates how personal insight and accountability can lead to transformation. The goal: help individuals build meaningful connections beyond the therapy room.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Couples Therapy Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) Character Change Adult Development Amplification of Consequences Couples Dynamics Reframing Responsibility Strategic Use of Self Task Assignment Utilization Character Transformation Adaptive Child Family Systems Functional Adult Grandiosity Intimacy Relational Empowerment Shame
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Forgiveness | Pain and Healing
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 57:47
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- How do we forgive a partner who cheats, drinks, insults, abandons - and doesn't show a shred of remorse? This keynote will challenge common assumptions about what it means to forgive and will present a radical model that gives hurt parties the courage to forgive - and the freedom not to.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 53:02
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- CC09 Keynote 03 - Mating and Captivity: The Paradox of Sex and Intimacy - Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Family Therapy | Addiction | Brief Therapy | Humor | Strategic Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Cloe Madanes, HDL, LIC
- Duration:
- 54:58
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- Madanes tells her favorite stories of therapy with difficult couples. She discusses some innovative strategies for couples therapy, including the use of financial incentives, behavioral contracts, and cultural storytelling to shift dynamics and resolve conflicts. The case examples cover topics like punctuality, anxiety, fetish behaviors, and parental disputes in divorce. Madanes emphasizes the value of creating positive memories, setting clear boundaries, and prioritizing children's well-being in high-conflict families.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Hypnosis | Art and Creativity | Psychology
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:03:53
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- Clients often request changes in mood and perspective. Traditionally, changing mood and perspective is accomplished by educating clients about their patterns, encouraging them to change their behaviors and thoughts. But, experiential methods can be more immediately effective. All art is, by definition "experiential." And altering mood and perspective is the point of it - whether drama, painting, literature, dance, or music. Movies use multilayered methods for change. The viewer is often unaware of the intricate dramatic, experiential methods that filmmakers use to exert influence.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Relationships | Research
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- John Gottman, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:49:17
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2009
- Short Description:
- Drawing upon 36 years of systematic multi-method longitudinal research with couples, Dr. Gottman teaches the differences between successful and unsuccessful couples in dealing with conflict and fostering romance and harmony. Dr. Gottman provides the basic clinical skills needed to help couples improve their relationships.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Couples Therapy | Gender | LGBTQ | Marriage | Psychology | Love | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 56:13
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 03, 2009
- Short Description:
- This presentation explores the biology and developmental psychology of love, sex, sexual orientation, commitment and marriage. Focus is on research and clinical applications.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Attachment | Couples Therapy | Developmental Therapy Model | Differentiation | Intimacy | Behavioral Psychology | Developmental Psychology | Neuroscience | Therapist Development | Trauma Studies
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:19:52
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- Learn how attachment, differentiation, and neuroscience intersect to help couples overcome communication barriers, manage conflicts, and grow together. Discover practical techniques like the "ouch" method to de-escalate tensions and support partners in developing deeper understanding and authentic connection.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Attachment Couples Therapy Developmental Therapy Model Differentiation Intimacy Conflict Resolution Emotional Growth Experiential Learning Grief Grief Processing Individual Therapy Phenomenological Approach Self-Discovery Therapeutic Alliance Validation Emotional Contagion Trust Issues Relationship Evolution
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Deception | Love | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Relationships | Grandiosity | Intimacy | Shame
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:55:39
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- This session presents a practical approach to Relational Life Therapy™, focusing on the interplay between grandiosity and shame, and the importance of addressing both indulgence and deficiency. It introduces the concepts of “latent” and “blatant” partners, emphasizing leverage, empowerment, and therapist transparency. Strategies include setting safe conditions for therapy, managing untreated disorders, calling forth the functional adult, and fostering relational joy over mere gratification.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Conflict | Relationships | Relational Life Therapy Model (RLT) | Strategic Therapy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Terry Real, LICSW
- Duration:
- 1:52:50
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- The reason why most couples' characteristic fights never get resolved is because in our most heated moments, we stop fighting with each other. Core negative images (CNIs) start fighting and the two real partners get lost. This workshop teaches participants how to help partners identify, make explicit, accept, and ultimately work with one another's core negative images. As partners are taught to utilize each other's CNIs, rather than fight them, all sorts of creative and deliberating possibilities emerge.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Conflict Couples Therapy Relationships Core Negative Images Emotional Dynamics Relational Grid Strategic Confrontation Behavioral Cycles Amplification of Consequences Pattern Interruption Reframing Responsibility Strategic Use of Self Emotional Grid Grandiosity Shame Internalized Models Couples Conflict Strategic Repair
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Neuroscience | Research
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 1:22:34
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- Current research from the field of neurophysiology confirms the fact that permanent change involves treating the system as well as the symptom. Come learn a simple, yet impactful way to help couples break old patterns by forming new ones. Lecture, demonstration, video and experiential exercise will be used.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Forgiveness | Couples Therapy | Pain and Healing
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 2:00:49
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 01, 2009
- Short Description:
- We're taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive. But, is this true? The presenter will spell out concrete strategies for helping hurt parties get healthy, including overcoming their bitter preoccupation with the unrepentant offender, de-shaming the injury, and making peace with the past - all without forgiving.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Avoidant | Addiction | Attachment | Behavioral Therapy | Family Systems | Neuroscience | Psychoanalysis | Psychotherapy | Trauma Studies
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:23:01
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- A comprehensive workshop exploring intimacy avoidance in couples, revealing therapeutic strategies to help partners overcome fear of vulnerability, challenge core beliefs, and develop deeper emotional connections through authentic communication and courageous self-exposure.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Avoidant Couples Therapy Intimacy Addiction Anxiety Attunement Conflict Avoidance Differentiation Domestic Violence Emotional Growth Experiential Therapy Hostile Couples Observation Pattern Interruption Phenomenological Approach Rapport Self-Discovery Symbiotic Relationships Therapeutic Alliance Trauma Validation Vulnerability Intimacy Avoidance Emotional Withdrawal Emotional Tension Substance Use
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Affairs | Couples Therapy | Trauma
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 1:39:23
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- This workshop will give you a language to help hurt parties normalize the profound sense of psychological loss they experience after an affair. It also will spell our exactly what unfaithful partners can do to earn forgiveness and what hurt partners can do to help foster forgiveness.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Affairs Couples Therapy Trauma
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2009
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:35:22
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- May 02, 2009
- Short Description:
- The story of intimacy and sexuality in committed modern couples is one that often tells of dwindling desire and includes a long list of sexual alibis, claiming to explain the inescapable weakening of erotic connection. The absence of fantasy, the proliferation of pornography and affairs, as well as a lack of understanding of the nature of erotic desire all contribute to the depression, loneliness and despair. In this workshop we will probe the intricacies of love and desire. Through case examples and video vignettes, Ms. Perel will introduce innovative strategies for partners to take emotional risks when negotiating their dual needs for connection and autonomy, predictability and passion. This model applies to young, old, married and not, heterosexual and same sex couples.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price