Discover psychoanalytic couple therapy in the United States. Understand unconscious processes impacting couples. Online CE courses for mental health professionals.
This course introduces U.S. therapists to psychoanalytic couple therapy and its premise that the unconscious shapes how couples relate. Tertia Myers, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a special interest in couples work, covers the couple psyche, the concept of couple fit, and how conflicts around sex, money, and children can reflect deeper themes. She also discusses assessment, technique, transference and countertransference, and the role of the psychoanalytic couple therapist. The course offers CE credits for psychologists through an APA-approved sponsor and suits clinicians who want insight into the dynamics beneath a couple's presenting problems.
Psychoanalytic couple therapy is based on the fascinating premise that the unconscious has a defining role to play in couple relationships. Tertia Myers, a Johannesburg-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a special interest in psychoanalytic couple's therapy, explores some of the fundamental concepts of this field. This illuminating talk offers therapists who are interested in the inner workings of the couple relationship insights into the couple psyche and couple fit, the meanings of conflicts around sex, money, and children, and the role of the psychoanalytic couple therapist.
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
Understand the central role of unconscious processes in shaping couple dynamics.
Define the concept of "couple fit" and its implications for therapy.
Identify how conflicts around sex, money, and children often reflect deeper psychological themes.
Recognise the role of transference and countertransference in couple therapy.
Describe the distinctive therapeutic posture and objectives of psychoanalytic couple therapy.