[Audio] CC13 Keynote 05 – Marriage Rules: Connecting with a Difficult Partner – Harriet Lerner, PhD

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Summary

• Archive: Topic Areas:KeynoteCategory:Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013Faculty:Harriet Lerner, PhDDuration:56:57Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Apr 20, 2013 Description Description: Lerner will describe the key aspects of having a clear and courageous voice with a difficult partner when a relationship is stuck in silence, fighting, distance, and blame.

• Educational Objectives: Explain the specific challenges that a person with a difficult partner faces in finding voice and getting unstuck.

• Compare defensive listening with non-defensive listening, and explain the challenge of respecting differences while clarifying a bottom line.

• *Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality* Faculty Harriet Lerner, PhD Related seminars and products: 21 Harriet Lerner, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a contributor to feminist theory and therapy.

• From 1972 to 2001, she was a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas and a faculty member and supervisor in the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry.