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£25.00
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£20.00
Incorporating sense and sexuality in couple therapy – Is integration possible?
Lectures from the Tavistock Relationships Model
With Susan Pacey
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
Susan Pacey
Incorporating sense and sexuality in couple therapy - Is integration possible?
Susan Pacey offers therapists insights into the challenges of working with body, mind and relationship when couples present with sexual problems. Currently clients seeking help must choose between a psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approach, which mostly addresses unconscious mental models of relating, and psychosexual therapy, which focuses primarily on the body and conscious couple interaction. In this way the profession seems to mirror the psychic splitting of sex and love, which Freud first identified and which is a common phenomenon in clinical work. There is a growing number of psychotherapists, however, who are working with both approaches and Pacey discusses psychological barriers to and benefits of integration.
Susan Pacey
Dr Susan Pacey has been a psychosexual and couple psychotherapist for 30 years, with a private practice in London W1 and also in the NHS for 15 years. In 2018 she completed successfully the Doctor of Couple Psychotherapy Programme at Tavistock Relationships (TR), having gained an MA in Psychoanalysis, Attachment and the Couple Relationship at TR in 2010. Pacey is a registered member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy and a senior accredited member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists. She is the author of the book Sensate Focus and the Psyche - Integrating Sense and Sexuality in Couple Therapy based on the key findings of her doctoral study. She has written papers on the medicalisation of sex, the impact of pregnancy and childbirth on sexual relationships, circumcision, female genital mutilation and other aspects of sexuality. She was one of a team of editors for the journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy for several years and is a teacher, speaker and organiser for national and international professional conferences concerned with sexual relationships and sexuality.
- 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.