Co-Sponsored by the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society and Contemporary Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy of New York
Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: “Essential Components of Couple Psychotherapy from an Object Relations Perspective”
One-Session Program (5 Contact Hours), Presenter: Molly Ludlam, MA, Date: Saturday, April 1, 2017, Time: 10:00am-4:00 pm, Location: Mt. Sinai, Goldwurm Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 98th St., NYC
Molly Ludlam, couple psychotherapist and Editor of the Journal Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, offers a day in which to think about the essential components of Object Relations couple therapy. In two presentations, “Connecting with the Internal Couple” and “How might the couple therapist best think about relationship breakdown and failure?”, she will review with participants the key theoretical concepts of this approach and how best to offer a containing relationship to couples struggling with entrenched conflict and the disabling fear of failure. There will also be an opportunity to apply these ideas in two live consultation sessions of participants’ case material.
Program Schedule:
– Morning Presentation: “Connecting with the Internal Couple”
Short Break
– Case Presentation from a participant
Lunch Break
– Afternoon Presentation: “How might the couple therapist best think about relationship breakdown and failure?”
Short Break
– Case Presentation from a participant
– Discussion
Molly Ludlam, MA having recently retired from clinical practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with couples, individuals, and parents, she now focuses on teaching, consulting, writing and editing. She is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Other publications include Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies (2007), co-edited with V.Nyberg; and most recently “Failure in Couple Relationships and in Couple Psychotherapy” (2014) in: B. Willock, R. Coleman, Curtis & L. Bohm, (Eds), Understanding and Coping with Failure: Psychoanalytic Perspectives; “Sitting with Marital Tensions: the work of Henry Dicks in applying Fairbairn’s ideas to couple relationships, “(2014), in: D. Scharff & G. Clarke (Eds) Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition; and “The Perinatally Depressed Couple and the Imperative of Mourning” (2014) in: K.Cullen, E. Bondi, J. Fewell, E. Francis, & M. Ludham (Eds). Making Spaces: Putting Psychoanalytic Thinking to Work. She was recently appointed to serve as External Examiner at Tavistock Relationships, UK, from 2016-2019.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will review the key theoretical components of an Object Relations approach to couple psychotherapy.
2. Given that loss and fear of failure are always must always be part of conflicted couple relationships, participants will consider and discuss the essential elements of building a therapeutic relationship with couples seeking therapy.
3. Participants will consider and discuss the application of psychoanalytic approaches to couple therapy in relation to live presentation of case material.
Continuing Education:
Psychotherapy of New York, NY LCSW, PC, CEP #0263 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. Course completion certificates will be awarded via email, to those who have attended the full length of all sessions in a course, after the completion of an online course evaluation.
Program Fee: $150
Candidates and Students with ID: $75
If you have any questions, please contact Tania Asnes at tania@cpcpnyc.com
REGISTER ONLINE: www.cpcpnyc.com/events/ludlam