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• Archive: Topic Areas:Couples Therapy | WorkshopCategory:Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2016Faculty:Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFTDuration:02:10:07Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :May 13, 2016 Description Description: The psychobiologically oriented couple therapist understands that the intersubjective, phenomenological process operating in primary attachment relationships relies heavily on fast acting implicit memory systems.
• Because of this phenomenon partners in a relationship rarely know what they are doing or why, and so they confabulate meaning in the absence of real understanding.
• Additionally, partners in couple therapy maintain hidden agendas and use deception in order to protect themselves from loss.
• Therefore, it is up to the couple therapist to find out who partners are, what they really want, and what they are up to in the first or second session.
• In this workshop we will learn to accept deception in couple therapy is a part of normal human behavior while utilizing specialized techniques to help partners clarify themselves and their agendas in an effort to move them toward secure functioning.