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Recent approaches to couples therapy emphasize the development of differentiation as the fundamental foundation of intimacy. Only when partners learn to define themselves, manage their reactivity and face the anxiety of their differences without collapsing will they find lasting intimacy (presented by Dr. Ellyn Bader). Other empirically-validated approaches, such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (presented by Dr. Susan Johnson), accentuate fostering a secure attachment and creating new bonding interactions through reprocessing emotional experiences with their partners.
The Object Relations model (presented by Drs. Jill and David Sharpe) sees therapy as providing a safe holding environment to contain the anxiety of the couple while their transferences and projective identifications are analyzed. The ultimate goal is for partners to create their own empathic holding environment. Dr. Shelia Sharpe focuses on the effect in adult relationships on different kinds of attachment. Dr. Harville Hendrix shows how to use the process of intentional dialogue to heal the wounds of past attachment failures in current intimate relationships by helping couples move from emotional symbiosis through differentiation to secure intimate connection.
Listeners will learn to:
· Define the process of attachment and differentiation in intimate relationships.
· Understand the difference between other-validated intimacy and self-validated intimacy and self-validated intimacy.
· Distinguish between couples who need help to build a firmer attachment and those where the emphasis should be more on differentiation.
· Understand the guiding principles of interdependence as a key to intimacy.
· Assess distance regulation problems affecting partners who can’t get close yet can’t let go.
· Know when to appropriately use empathy-based interventions and when more anxiety producing differentiation-based interventions are necessary.
This program includes the following tapes:
- (798) Pivotal Events in the Construction of a Secure Emotional Bond in Emotionally-Focused Therapy
- (799) Trauma, Sex and Intimacy
- (800) You're No Good! Devaluing as a Pattern of Connection & Separateness in Couples Relationships
- (801) Panel Discussion: Dr. Marion Solomon
- (802) Tell Me No Lies: Truth Telling in Intimate Relationships
- (803) The New Archetype of Partnership
- (804) Panel Discussion: Dr. Judith Anderson
Program CD Price: $60.00
Homestudy Price: $80.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 CEU Hours
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Total CD's: 10
This conference looks at how attachment theory, neurobiological research and the development of new therapy models are reshaping our understanding of intimate relationships. The panel was chosen for their ability to present complex concepts in a nontechnical but precise, engaging style.
Helen Fisher begins with a discussion of romantic love, lust and attachment, three brain circuits that have evolved to promote specific human mating and bonding behaviors. She delineates how these brain circuits interact in biochemical patterns that both deter and promote attachment and partner differentiation. Following this, David Schnarch presents his innovative, non-pathological approach to resurrecting sexuality and enhancing growth in ongoing relationships. He emphasizes the development of differentiation.
Daniel Siegel focuses on an interpersonal neurobiological understanding of human connections. Siegel clarifies how the developing mind, in interaction with caregivers, acquires particular patterns of attachment that become working models of future intimate relationships. Susan Johnson then presents the core interventions fo Emotionally Focused Therapy, an empirically-validated approach to couples-therapy, which focuses on fostering a secure attachment and creating new bonding interactions through reprocessing emotional experience. Emotion is seen as the primary player in the drama of marital distress and in changing injured attachment bonds. Dependency needs are depathologized.
Listeners will learn to:
• Distinguish between using attachment-based and differentiation-based interventions.
• Learn the 3 brain circuits that most effect love relationships.
• Recognize the role of differentiation in maintaining sexual desire in monogamous relationships and preventing affairs.
• Structure therapy to help distressed couples harness anxiety-provoking conflicts to resolve emotional gridlock.
This program includes the following tapes:
- (501) The Anatomy of Love
- (502) Contingent Communications & Neurobiology of Attachment
- (503) Creating Secure Attachments: EFT Approach
- (504) Dialogue
Program CD Price: $75.00
Homestudy Price: $95.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 continuing education hours
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Total CD's: 7
Creating lasting change in couples therapy is a crucial clinical goal. Yet a significant relapse rate in couples therapy remains a serious problem affecting our field today. Trauma intensifies the need for secure attachments, yet often simultaneously, destroys one’s ability to trust such bonds. This conference brings together key contributors to new insights about healing traumatic attachments and preventing relapse in couples therapy.
This conference explores:
• The best predictors of success or failure in adult intimate relationships
• The most effective therapeutic interventions which help resolve trauma plus restore mastery and connections.
• Key factors in preventing relapse and advancing lasting relationship change
• Understanding the difference between trauma and attachment injuries in couples relationships
• Meta-emotion work with couples in preventing attachment injuries
• Powerful change events in couples therapy that foster secure attachment
This program includes the following tapes:
- (424) Prevention of Relapse in Couples Therapy
- (425) The Body Keeps the Score: Integration of Body and Mind in the Treatment of Traumatized People
- (426) Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
- (427) Meta-Emotion:Possible Basis for Preventing Attachment Injuries in Couples
- (428) Transforming Moments in EFT
- (429) Dialogues
Program CD Price: $95.00
Homestudy Price: $115.00
Homestudy Credit: available for Home Study Course, 14 hours continuing education
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Total CD's: 11
EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED therapist can feel overwhelmed by couples struggling with infidelity. Conventional wisdom maintains that infidelity is always traumatic and a symptom of a troubled relationship, while recent thinking suggests there is no one-size-fits-all. This program brings together a stellar group of experts on infidelity, offering two intense days of stimulating, thought-provoking presentations along with practical clinical skills.
The goal of this program is to present a wide range of clinical thinking about what exactly constitutes infidelity and the various approaches to treatment. Learn the most current methods for guiding a couple to best determine whether the legacy of an affair will be a break-up, simply surviving, or a transformative experience. Issues of countertransference and the therapist’s life experience will be considered, with a focus on the values of the therapist that can affect clinical decisions.
Program CD Price: $130.00
Homestudy Price: $150.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 CE Hours
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Under the best circumstances, consistent, successful management of closeness and distance can be a thorny undertaking for adult couples. Add the presence of early relational trauma to the mix, however, and the ability to sustain positive interaction becomes an infinitely more complex and daunting task. What new information has twenty-first century research in psychology, anthropology and neuroscience discovered that can facilitate the process of relationship development and repair?
This conference brings together an outstanding faculty of renowned clinicians and researchers to provide an in-depth view of love, romance and intimate attachments. Explore modern relationships through the perspective of attachment theory, affective neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology. The focus is on what helps people create connections, what to do if the bonds of love are frayed and what makes relationships thrive over time.
Program CD Price: $69.00
Homestudy Price: $89.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 continuing education hours
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Regular Price: $105.00 Now on sale: $70
“The Origin of Adult Erotic Experience” Otto Kernberg, MD
“Passion and the Psychosoma” Joyce McDougall, D.Ed
“Erotic Terror” Harriet Kimble Wrye, PhD
“Counterfeit Eroticism” Judd Marmor, MD
“Inhibitions of Desire” Martha Kirkpatrick, MD
“A Patient/Therapist Attachment” Beatriz Foster, MD
“Panel Discussion” Panel
This conference looks at clinical issues that emerge in therapy: erotic transference and countertransference, sexual fantasy, sexual compulsion, desire and the inhibition of desire, and aspects of love between patients.
Through lectures, panels, and workshops, this program focuses on clinical experience and response to factors affecting connections, violations, and disconnections in sex and love.
This program includes the following tapes:
- (763) The Origin of Adult-Erotic Experiences
- (764) Passion and the Psychosoma
- (765) Erotic Terror
- (766) Counterfeit Eroticism
- (767) Inhibitions of Desire
- (768) A Patient/Therapist Attachment
- (769) Panel Discussion
Program CD Price: $70.00
Homestudy Price: $90.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 CEU Hours
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Total CD's: 11
Everyone wants to be allowed at times to be taken care of, to feel small and vulnerable yet secure in the protective embrace of a partner. By recognizing these needs as universal , and understanding that both men and women want to be touched, held, nutured, and affirmed by someone they can depend on, Lean On Me, helps couples to discover how “positive dependency” can and will forever change their relationship and their lives.
This presentation Dr. Solomon focuses on the importance of positive connection between people and ways to attain it. Solomon’s thesis is that connection is the primary goal of human life. She shows in her work with couples how this can be achieved. “Lean on Me” presents a persuasive case for interdepedence and over independence.
Program CD Price: $10.00
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What are passionate attachments? Why are they fragile? Most of us feel that we know a lot about love, perhaps even experts on it. The field of mental health has a great deal of expertise in the failures of love. We have found what creates many of the problems our patients have.
This program includes the following tapes:
- (806) Introduction
- (807) Arthurian Romance and Courtly Love
- (808) A Many Faceted Thing
- (809) Falling in Love and the Idealization and Sexualization of the Power Attributed to Men
- (810) Love, Failure, Fetishism, Erotic Excitement
- (811) Love, Attachments, & the Fifth Commandment
- (812) The Passionate Self: One Plus One
Program CD Price: $105.00
Homestudy Price: $125.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 continuing education hours
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Total CD's: 9
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