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£25.00
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£20.00
The Generation of Empathy Between Intimate Partners: Gesture and Recognition or Identity Diffusion?
Lectures from the Tavistock Model
With Susanna Abse
Since 1948 Tavistock Relationships has been instrumental in building a rich and effective therapeutic model to support couple relationships. The model is based on the principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and grounded in decades of research, offering a depth approach to working with the couple relationships.
This series of lectures provides a comprehensive exploration of psychoanalytic perspectives on couple relationships as well as an understanding of how to work therapeutically with couples and is suitable for anyone working with couples, interested to start working with couples or simply interested in the complexities inherent in being in a relationship.
The talks include the importance of the interplay of past influences, present dynamics, as well as the future potential in couple relationships, framing the couple as vehicle for creative development throughout the life cycle.
Clinical issues with couples work such as the complex terrain of transference and countertransference and a different way of working considering there are three in the room are discussed.
These lectures collectively offer insights which will enrich your understanding of psychoanalytic approaches to the complexity of couple relationships.
Programme
Susanna Abse
The Generation of Empathy Between Intimate Partners
Susanna Abse will give a psychoanalytic account of intimacy and discuss how intimate couple relationships require both ego fluidity and ego strength. She will show how intimacy between partners includes the merging of self and other boundaries and how this capacity to enter another’s experience, which is developed in infancy, is vital to satisfying emotional and sexual engagement. However, in therapeutic work with couples we also see how the breaking down of self/other boundaries can lead to destructive cycles of relating via projective identification. Susanna will offer clinical insights into identifying and differentiating these two ways of relating and she will discuss how the work of couple psychotherapists can strengthen the individual egos of each partner to bring about greater intimacy.
Susanna Abse
Susanna Abse has worked as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with couples for over 30 years, an experience she shares in her 2022 book, Tell Me the Truth about Love. Previously, she was the CEO of Tavistock Relationships, the leading centre for training, research and clinical services for couples. Until 2021, she was the chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and is now a trustee of the Freud Museum in London, and the Association of Infant Mental Health. In 2019, she presented Britain on the Couch, a series of films for Channel 4 News. Susanna is the co-editor of The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis for Routledge Books, and is a senior fellow of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. She works in central London at the Queen Anne Street Practice for Psychological Therapies.
- Psychotherapists
- Couple and Family Psychotherapists
- Psychoanalysts
- Psychologists
- Clinical Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Counsellors
- Social workers
- Teachers/Educators
Standard Price: £25
Trainee and NHS staff: £20
Group Rates (for 4 or more): Contact makeritafaumui@trtogether.com for customised pricing.
Trainee discount: To qualify for this offer you need to be taking a course which provides core practitioner training in counselling or psychotherapy that is at least 1 year full time or two years part time and recognised by the BACP or UKCP. TR Together reserve the right to ask to see evidence of training being undertaken.
Alumni: If you are a TR Alumni (TRAPC member) please email anitabruz@tavistockrelationships.org for a discount code to add at checkout
Your CPD Certificate will be available to download from your TR Together account 48 hours after purchase.