and
The
to
of
the
principles
Principles
In
in
At
• Archive: Topic Areas:SpeechCategory:Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2018Faculty:Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFTDuration:1:11:45Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Dec 09, 2018 Description Description: This one-hour speech focuses on what all couple therapists should at least consider: social justice and fairness agreements between partners.
• The human primate is warlike, self-centered, mostly automatic, and given to flights of fancy, moodiness, and other unpredictable feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
• Thus, the social science predicate of civilization dictates that, to hold human beings accountable, there must be agreements between individuals that protect them from one another.
• Shared principles of governance points to the matter of partners governing each other and everyone else as the couple is the smallest unit of a society.
• Principles are hierarchically more personal and self-governing than rules or laws.