Psychoanalytic Therapy with Couples: Using Countertransference

Working with couples can be challenging, engaging and frustrating. In this workshop, we will direct attention to unconscious processes in the couple, and particularly, how the inevitable feelings and reactions the couple engender in the therapist can be used to inform therapeutic understanding and interpretation. We will use case material to illustrate unconscious processes in couple dynamics, and to show how the therapist can intervene to enhance intimacy.

Peter Klein, Ph.D., Associate, The Couples Institute, Menlo Park
Janice Mill, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Member and Faculty, SFCP
Saturday, January 28; February 4, 2012
6 CME/CE credits available

Educational objectives:

1. Participants will describe how unconscious processes are part of the couple’s dynamics.
2. Participants will demonstrate how to use their countertransference reactions to inform their assessment of the couple’s dynamics.
3. Participants will utilize interventions that will enhance a couple’s intimacy.
4. Participants will recognize how to track unconscious processes in their clinical work.