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Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?

Tough CustomersBy Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people!

You Don’t Have To Choose

Casey Truffo On Doing The Work You Love And Making It Pay

The Dance of Intimacy

Hedy Schleifer On The Art And Science Of Nonverbal Connection

Where Have All the “Patients” Gone? Facing the Realities of Practice Today

Where Have the Patients Gone? By Rich Simon A thousand years ago, during the palmy days of generous insurance reimbursement, therapists could maintain the illusion that, since therapy was paid for by an unseen hidden hand, clinical practice was somehow untouched by the tacky subject of money. Even the style of therapy reflected this disjunction:

The Rewards Of More Direct Contact With Potential Clients

Lynn Grodzki On An Opportunity Presented From Tough Times.

R106: The Art of Intimacy: Understanding the Couple's Bond

In the mass media, love is typically dished up as an endless celebration of brand new, gloriously uncomplicated ardor. But the fact is that most of us are pitifully unprepared for life after infatuation...

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While the term "intimacy" is often used to describe the goal of marriage, it remains one of the more poorly understood words in our clinical vocabulary. The five articles in this Reading Course offer a number of challenging perspectives on dynamics of long-term couples intimacy. Susan Johnson shows how attachment theory illuminates the inner landscape of relationship and the pathways to the restoration of trust for troubled couples. Pat Love describes the powerful automatic, biochemical processes that determine whether people fall in or out of love. Laura Markowitz discusses how therapists can help couples face issues of class, race, sexual orientation, and culture in the consulting room. Richard Schwartz and Michael Ventura each explore the challenge couples face as one of not just two people getting to know each other, but of two families of selves somehow blending.

Course Readings

The Biology of Love: What Therapists Need to Know about Attachment by Susan Johnson

The Cultural Context of Intimacy: Sometimes You Have to Take a Step Back to Get Close by Laura Markowitz

In the Marriage Zone by Michael Ventura

Know Thy Selves by Richard Schwartz

What Is This Thing Called Love? The Answers Are Being Discovered in the Laboratory by Pat Love

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Learning Objectives

1. Discuss how understanding inner selves enhances couples therapy
2. Explain Self-leadership in the context of the inner family
3. Develop interventions for couples based on Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
4. Identify social problems that impact couples relationships

 

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