The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of The Contemporary Freudian Society
Introduction to Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Five-Session Workshop
Instructor: Vivian Eskin, PhD
Dates: September 11, 18, 25
October 2, 9
Time: 1:30-3:00pm
Location: Upper West Side, NYC
This five-session workshop introduces the Tavistock model of couple treatment and presents a discussion of tools and techniques to addressing unresolved issues of separation and Oedipal conflicts as maintaining factors impairing a strong couple bond. This workshop is designed to provide participants the opportunity of furthering
their learning about couple psychotherapy. This special couple and theory focus is behind the approach of the Tavistock Center for Couple Relationships in London, UK. This workshop is designed to provide participants the opportunity of learning about couples work, the special focus of, and an introduction to the theory behind the approach of the Tavistock Center for Couples Relationships. This particular lens highlights the unconscious choice of partner; highlights object relations residing in one and projected on another; an unconscious belief that couples have towards each other, and how to introduce new ways of thinking and relating. The concept of projective identification and its use among couples will be addressed and the containing object of the therapist can be of value to couples seeking help in their relationship.
This workshop will be helpful to all psychotherapists who work with couples and individuals. As individual therapists we do not have the opportunity to see the partner our patients might be involved with, and hearing case vignettes of couple treatment can shed light on obstacles patients have around issues related to dependency, vulnerability, separateness and difference, ambivalence and commitment. This particular lens highlights unconscious determinants of partner choice; unconscious beliefs that couple have toward each other; projective identification, and its use among couples, and how it can sabotage closeness; difficulties couples face with negotiating separateness and difference, and how the couple psychotherapist can be a container for unwanted feelings. The concepts that will be covered will be: the couple as patient; the internal parental couple; unconscious couple fit; and couple state of mind and projective identification in the couple relationship.
A reading list and articles will be provided. This workshop is open to members and candidates of the CFS and the community interested in learning about couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Vivian Eskin, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) and a graduate of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Training Program of CFS/IPTAR. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), National Association for Social Work (NASW), and Confederation of Psychoanalytic Societies (CPS). She teaches at various training institutes and graduate programs in New York City, provides clinical supervision, and has an active private practice. Dr. Eskin has taught at graduate schools and training institutes for psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and forensic work. The coursework she has taught includes: Individual and Clinical Practice; Interpersonal Skills and Communication; Grief, Loss and Bereavement in the Life Cycle; Continuous Case Seminars; Young Adult Development; Pregnancy and the Psychological Birth of Mother and Father; and Narcissistic, Borderline and Schizois States and Psychodynamics.
Learning Objectives:
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Name three of the complex factors that arise in the psychoanalytic treatment of couples.
2. Identify and understand the importance of the individual patients negotiating separation from their primary relationships and the necessity of psychic separation in order to facilitate a couple bond.
3. Identify three components of the Tavistock method in the treatment of couples.
Continuing Education Contact Hours:
The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0087. Contact Hours are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking Contact Hours to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and evaluation form, participants will be granted 7.5 Contact Hours.
Program Fee: $250
Full refund 30 days prior to program date
For further information regarding this course, please contact Vivian Eskin, veskinphd@me.com or 212-724-4785
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