CPD Credits
2.5
Event Type
Live Online Event
Location
Zoom & Recording for 365 days
Time
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Standard
£60.00
Trainee/NHS
£51.00
Friday, March 22, 2024
Couples Therapy with Orna Guralnik
Holding the frame with Orna and Colleagues
With Orna Guralnik, Nuar Alsadir, Ken Corbett, Kali Cyrus & Eyal Rozmarin
In the acclaimed television series "Couples Therapy," clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, Orna Guralnik, takes viewers on an intimate journey into the complexities of couples' relationships and how to support change through psychotherapy. In this online webinar, Orna will be joined by her peer supervision group to reflect on casework. Orna will present two cases from the show including Sean & Erica and Christine & Nadine, whose backgrounds are outlined below.
Both cases offer an opportunity to think about relationship dynamics underpinned by cultural differences, including religion, ethnicity, race and gender, and how these factors intersect. The importance of taking an intersectional and transcultural approach to think about the couples’ presenting problems will be central to the discussion. The impact of the therapist’s and peer supervision group’s own cultural perspectives will be considered. From a technical perspective, we will think about countertransference responses related to intercultural and relational dynamics, and the essential need for depth exploration in supervision to understand what might support development for the couple.
Orna will present each couple, the peer supervision group will respond. We will then open up for live discussion with participants.
Programme
16.00 Introductions
Orna and her colleagues will introduce themselves and their work.
16.15 Sean and Erica
Sean (40) is a Black cisgendered male married for 9 years to Erica (45) a Black cisgendered woman. They have a 4-year-old daughter together. Sean is the main caretaker, while Erica is the breadwinner. While there is natural tension around that dynamic, the majority of their conflict is centred around Sean’s infidelities. He’s cheated on her multiple times. Erica only recently uncovered all of this.
Orna will offer her experience of working with Sean and Erica, the peer supervision group will respond.
16.55 Q&A with participants
17.15 Break
17.30 Christine and Nadine
Nadine and Christine are 28 year old, cisgendered lesbian women. They both say they were raised in rigid homophobic families, but have moved away from those beliefs and into a modern, queer city life. They’ve been together for about 2 years. The major source of contention throughout their entire relationship is centred on trying to open up the relationship. Nadine identifies as inherently non-monogamous. Christine feels that intellectually, she’s read all the books, but finds herself getting physically ill (bouts of IBS, panic attacks, and body spasms) when Nadine connects with other women. Christine attributes some of this restraint to her Arab religious upbringing that states “the honor of the whole family is in between your legs.” She initially claims that she’s intent on breaking out of that not just for Nadine, but because she too wants to live a non traditional life.
Orna will offer her experience of working with Nadine and Christine, the peer supervision group will respond.
18.10 Q&A with participants
18.30 End
Orna Guralnik
Dr. Orna Guralnik is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is on the faculty of NYU postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis, and writes and teaches on the intersection of politics, dissociation and psychoanalysis. She is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies in Gender & Sexuality. She is the therapist on the SHOWTIME documentary series “Couples Therapy.”
Ken Corbett
Ken Corbett, Ph.D, Professor New York University, The Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of “Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities,” and “A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High.”
Eyal Rozmarin
Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and writer. He is Co-Editor of the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, and on the editorial boards of the Journals Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. His research takes place at the intersection of psychoanalysis and social theory, and explores the relations between the subjective and the collective. He has written about gender, sexuality, ethnicity, immigration, nationality, and how such psycho-social-historical constellations create human experience and identity. Recently, he has been working to understand the psycho-social relation through the notions of collective identification and belonging. Eyal is on faculty at the White Institute in New York and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Originally from Israel/Palestine, he now lives and works in New York.
Nuar Alsadir
Nuar Alsadir, a writer and psychoanalyst, has published three books, most recently, the nonfiction book Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation (Fitzcarraldo Editions/Graywolf Press), which was a TIME Magazine must-read of 2022 and a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2022. She is also the author of two poetry collections: Fourth Person Singular, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and More Shadow Than Bird. She is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and a member of the curatorial board of The Racial Imaginary Institute. She works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.
Kali Cyrus
Kali D. Cyrus MD MPH is a Stanford, Emory, UIC, and Yale trained physician and public health thought leader. Her work is informed by her personal experience as a Black, Queer woman. In her academic work, Dr. Cyrus has developed curricula to help medical professionals understand and respond to oppression and currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has worked in the public sector as a health policy aide for Senator Chris Murphy as a Jeanne Spurlock Fellow through the American Psychiatric Association. The acute awareness of how social systems that influence health benefit the privileged, drives Dr. Cyrus’ advocacy efforts in the political, healthtech, and media spaces.
As such, Dr. Cyrus is a Board Member of a 501c4 organization called the Committee to Protect Health Care. She has helped found women's advocacy organizations like TimesUpHealthcare and Gemma. Lastly, Dr. Cyrus has been a featured expert on news outlets like CNN, MSNBC and most recently Showtime's Couples Therapy. Pairing her deep expertise with humor, Dr. Cyrus brings humanity to challenging topics and works with individuals and corporations around issues of race, identity, and conflict through her consulting firm, Dynamics of Difference.
- Psychotherapists
- Couple and Family Psychotherapists
- Psychoanalysts
- Psychologists
- Clinical Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Counsellors
- Social workers
- Teachers/Educators
- Analyse and discuss relationship dynamics in couples' therapy, specifically focusing on the influence of cultural differences, such as religion, ethnicity, race, and gender.
- Understand the importance of taking an intersectional and transcultural approach when assessing and addressing couples' presenting problems.
- Recognise and reflect on their own countertransference responses related to intercultural and relational dynamics in couples therapy, highlighting the significance of self-awareness in the therapeutic process.
- Appreciate the essential role of depth exploration in supervision and how it can facilitate the development of couples undergoing therapy.
Standard Registration: £60.00
Trainee, NHS staff and Third Sector: £51.00
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