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Part 1: A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy

Session #: 710-605A
Presenter(s): Stan Tatkin
Session Length: 5 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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Distressed couples come into therapy when their repeated interactions create intense states of unpleasant emotional arousal--they literally "get on each other's nerves" and experience a threat response in the presence of the other, resulting in distancing, avoidance, and sometimes violence. In this workshop, you'll learn an approach to couples therapy based on principles of mother-infant attachment, developmental neuroscience, and autonomic nervous system arousal. We'll discuss how to penetrate below the level of what they say and do to the fast-moving, implicit level of interpersonal neurobiology--how each partner unconsciously affects the other's emotional arousal system. You'll learn how to identify couple types according to their childhood attachment patterns and we'll explore various movement, touch, psychodrama, and other experiential interventions designed to uncover and repair attachment injuries and help both partners enhance their capacity for self-regulation.

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