This program focuses on integration of essential implicit communications within the therapeutic alliance. This includes recent interpersonal neurobiological models that describe the right brain/mind/body systems, the impact of this on communications, and newer bodily-based trauma models that focus on the enduring impact of stress on the central and autonomic nervous systems.

Relationships are the most important aspects of the therapeutic encounter. Relationships are also primary for physical, mental well-being.

Explore how relationships shape the brain, and how the brain shapes relationships? We will see how early attachment disturbances can lead to a wide variety of adult relational problems, especially when combined with unresolved trauma. The ability to form and sustain reciprocal interpersonal relationships is notably disrupted in individuals who experience early traumas in attachment patterns.

Bonnie Goldstein, PhD

“One Hundred Names for Love”

Diane Ackerman, D.Litt        

 “Attachment, Culture and Relationships”

Marion Solomon, PhD

“A New Approach to Couples Therapy”

Harville Hendrix, PhD

“Passion, Vitality and Emotional Intimacy in Love

Relationships”

Ellyn Bader, PhD

“The Science of Trust and Betrayal”

John Gottman, PhD

“Discussion”

Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Alanis Morissette, Artist

“Panel Discussion I with All Presenters”

Moderator: Bonnie Mark-Goldstein, PhD

DAY TWO

Marion Solomon, PhD

“The Neurobiology of Relationships”

Daniel J. Siegel, MD   

“Perspectives from Regulation Theory: Early Brain

Development and the Increased Prevalence of Severe

Mental Disorders in U.S. Youth”

Allan Schore, PhD

“Our Social Baseline: How Healthy Relationships Increase 

James Coan, PhD

“Body to Body Conversation: Implicity Co-Constructing Intersubjectivity”

Pat Ogden, PhD

“A Neural Love Code: The Body’s Need to Engage and Bond”

Stephen Porges, PhD

Panel Discussion II with All Presenters

Moderator: Bonnie Goldstein, PhD