Lifespan Learning Institute - Store - Program Wholeness of Mind, Brain, Body and Human-Relatedness (recorded March 5-7, 2010)

Adult Attachment and the Adult Attachment Interview with Mary Main and Erik Hesse

In this 3-day program Drs. Mary Main and Erik Hesse explore the ways in which the Adult Attachment Interview is conducted and utilized in conjunction with clinical practice. Main & Hesse describe ways in which – using transcripts of this interview -- an individual’s state of mind respecting attachment can be useful to clinicians whether or not it is transcribed and formally assessed. They also review the current state of the field, including recent studies involving gene-environment interactions and attachment.

Program CD Price: $125.00
Homestudy Price: $145.00
Homestudy Credit: 18 CE Hours
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Anatomy of Intimacy: Healing Traumatic Attachment Injuries and Preventing Relapse in Couples Therapy

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

Attachment, Separation and Loss

Almost two decades after developing his theory, John Bowlby, is now considered the father of the attachment theory. Bowlby’s research has since been extensively studied by others and his ideas and beliefs have been confirmed. He examines the processes that take place in attachment and separation. Bowlby shows that human attachment is an instinctive response to the need for protection against predators, and one as important for survival as nutrition and reproduction. Although Bowlby was primarily focused on understanding the nature of the infant-caregiver relationship, he believed that attachment characterized human experience from “the cradle to the grave.” This program was recorded in London, England 1984.

Program CD Price: $149.00
Homestudy Price: $169.00
Homestudy Credit: 1 hour CE credit
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The Healing Power of Emotion: Integrating Relationships, Body, and Mind

In the era of brain science and attachment theory, we increasingly understand how important integration is to healthy growth and optimal development. We see this conference not only as an opportunity to share the cutting edge with a large audience, but also as an opportunity to define, generate and integrate new knowledge from various fields.

As in our past conferences, we hope to transcend boundaries between scientists and clinicians, between researchers and practitioners. The conference will feature dialogue between presenters across disciplines, brain science, developmental research and clinical work (represented by videotapes of treatment sessions.) We will have clinicians commenting on developmental research and exploring its implications for clinical practice, and neuroscientists commenting on clinical phenomena from their perspective.

This program includes the following tapes:

(350) Meta-Communication
(351) Hold Me Tight: The New Science of Adult Love
(352) Intersubjectivity in Action: Co-Creating Meaningful Narratives
(353) Discussion and Dialogue with Presenter (Panel 1)
(354) The Emotional MindBrain: The Foundational Role of Core Affects in Consciousness and Psychotherapy
(355) The Transformational Affects and Metatherapeutic Processes: Attachment, Emotion, Integration and Healing in Experiential Action
(356) Love or Trauma? How Neural Mechanisms Mediate Bodily Responses to Proximity and Touch
(357) Integration- Brain, Mind, Body and Emotion in Clinical Treatment
(358) Discussion and Dialogue with Presenter (Panel 2)

Program CD Price: $95.00
Homestudy Price: $115.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 hours CEU
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Total CD's: 11

Wholeness of Mind, Brain, Body and Human-Relatedness (recorded March 5-7, 2010)

We are increasingly aware of the significance of affective processes in essential human survival functions. A number of scientific and clinical research studies have been converging on the centrality of affect, including unconscious and dissociated affect. These are now becoming a central focus of psychotherapeutic work.

This program is composed of pioneers and essential contributors to the ongoing paradigm shift. All are authors who have written extensively on the themes of the relationship between early development, affect regulation, relational trauma, psychopathogenesis, and psychodynamic models of the treatment of both mind and body, especially with the more severe personality disorders. The conference faculty includes infant researchers, neuroscientists, psychoanalysts, and trauma investigators, and yet all are experienced clinicians, each with decades of psychotherapy practice.

All of the presentations focus on the practical applications of ongoing neurobiological and developmental studies, groundbreaking clinical explorations, and interdisciplinary theoretical modeling of survival-related affective and self- regulatory phenomena. Presenters discuss various aspects of their current work, as well as dialogue between other presenters and the audience.

PRESENTATIONS:

Negotiating Safe Space in Therapeutic Settings and Social Relationships -Stephen Porges, PhD

The Social Emotional Brain: From Distress to Social Bonding to Play - Pat Ogden, PhD & Jaak Panksepp, PhD

Mirror Neurons and Clinical Treatment - Lou Cozolino, PhD

Regulation and Disregulation: A Psychobiological Approach to Treating Couples - Stan Tatkin, PhD

Mindsight and Integration in the Cultivation of Well-Being - Daniel Siegel, MD

Emotion and Recognition: Energy, Vitality, Pleasure, Truth, Desire and the Emergent Phenomenology of Transformational Experience - Diana Fosha, PhD

You Knew Me When I Didn’t Know Myself, but I Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know: Treatment of Complete Dissociative Trauma - Christine Courtois, PhD

The Brain That Changes Itself: The Neuroplasticity Revolution in Context - Norman Doidge, MD

In Search of Luderons*: The Modern Search for the Cerebral Fountains of Youth - Jaak Panksepp, PhD

Therapeutic Enactments: Working in the Right Brain Windows of Affect Tolerance - Allan Schore, PhD

Safe but Not Too Safe: “The Inevitability of Therapeutic Enactments in Attachment-Oriented Psychotherapy” - Pat Ogden, PhD and Allan Schore, PhD (with pre-recording of Philip Bromberg, PhD)

Reflections and Integration - Daniel Siegel, MD

Program CD Price: $180.00
Homestudy Price: $200.00
Homestudy Credit: 19 CE hours
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