Venue: Central Bristol 11 Orchard Street, Bristol BS1 5EH

Certificate in The Study of the Couple Relationship

13 May 2017 – 9 December 2017 Saturdays: 10.15am – 4.00pm Venue: Central Bristol – 11 Orchard Street, Bristol BS1 5EH

Presenters include:

Liz Salter

Andrew Balfour

Mary Morgan

David Hewison

Julie Humphries

Catriona Wrottesley The day will usually follow the structure:

10.00 – 11.00 – Tavistock Relationships’ Presentation/seminar – paper 1

11.00 – 11.30 – Couple techniques and skills

11.30 – 11.45 – Morning break

11.45 – 1.00 – Clinical seminar/case discussion

1.00 – 1.45 – Lunch break

1.45 – 2.30 – Reading/discussion – paper 2

2.30 – 3.00 – Couple techniques and skills

3.00 – 4.00 – Clinical seminar/ case discussion

The Curriculum is as follows although the order might be subject to change:

13 May 2017

Shared unconscious relationship and Couple fit

Balfour, A. (2005) The couple, their marriage, and Oedipus: or, problems come in twos and threes. In: Grier, F. (Ed). (2005) Oedipus and the Couple. London: Karnac, Chapter 3

Ruszczynski, S. (Ed.) (1993): Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies. Psychotherapy with Couples London: Karnac. Chapter 1.

Lyons, A. (1993) Husbands and wives: the mysterious choice. In Ruszczynski, S. (Ed.) Psychotherapy with Couples: Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute. London, Karnac. Chapter 3. Balfour, A., (2012). Couple Therapy – Social Engineering or Psychological Treatment? In Balfour, A., Morgan, M., & Vincent, C., (2012) (eds.) How Couple Relationships Shape Our World. Clinical Practice, Research and Policy Perspectives. London: Karnac.

10 June 2017

The couple in mind

Morgan, M. (2001). First Contacts – the therapist’s ‘couple state of mind’ as a factor in the containment of couples seen for consultation. In: Grier, F. (Ed.) Brief Encounters with Couples – some analytic perspectives. London: Karnac Books

Ludlam, M (2007) Our attachment to the ‘couple in mind’. In: M. Ludlam & V. Nyberg (Eds.) Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies Karnac: London

1 July 2017

Unconscious phantasy and unconscious beliefs

Tarsh, H & Bollinghaus, E. (1999). Shared Unconscious Phantasy – reality or illusion. Sexual and Marital Therapy 14(2).

Hewison, D. (2014) Shared Unconscious Phantasy in couples. In: Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy. Eds. Scharff & Scharff. Chapter 2.

Morgan, M. (2010) Unconscious beliefs about being a couple. fort da Spring 2010 Vol XV1, No 1

Humphries, J. (2015) Working in the Presence of Unconscious Couple Beliefs. Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 4:2 9 September 2017

The couple relationship and containment

Morgan, M. (2014) What do we mean by containment in couple psychotherapy and in the couple relationship (unpublished paper)

Feldman, T. (2014) From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples. Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. 4:2.

Colman W (1993) Marriage as a psychological container in Ruszczynski, S. (Ed.) (1993): Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies. Psychotherapy with Couples London: Karnac.

7 October 2017

Hate/ Aggression/ Violence

Vincent, C. (2014) Getting back to or getting back at: understanding overt aggression in Scharff and Scharff (Eds.) Couple relationships in Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy London: Karnac.

Kernberg, O. (1995) Aggression, Love and the Couple. In: Love Relations Yale University Press, New York. Chapter 6 (pp. 81-97)

Clulow, C. (2001) Attachment, narcissism and the violent couple. In: C. Clulow (2001) Adult attachment and Couple Psychotherapy: the ‘secure base’ in practice and research. Brunner Routledge

Humphries, J. & McCann, D. (2015) Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Violent Couples: Understanding and Working with Domestic Violence. In: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 5:2. 11 November 2017

Sex/Sexualities/ Oedipal issues

Target, M. (2007) Is our sexuality our own? A developmental model of sexuality based on early affect mirroring. British Journal Psychotherapy 2007: 23 (4). PG 517 – 530

Hertzmann, Leezah. (2015) Objecting to the object. Encountering the internal parental couple relationship for lesbian and gay couples. In: Lynch, P (Ed.) To be published by New York: Routledge.

9 December 2017

Psychosexual therapy

O’Connor, M and Hiller, J (2014) Psychodynamic aspects of Psychosexual Therapy In: Kirani, P.S.et.al, (Eds.) The EFS and ESSM syllabus of Clinical Sexology. Amsterdam:Medix.

McCann, D. (2014) Responding to the clinical needs of same-sex couples. Chapter 7. In: D. E. Scharff and J. Savege Scharff (Eds.) Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Foundations of theory and practice. London: Karnac.

Jane Seymour and Laura Green (2009) Loss Of Desire: A Psychosexual Case Study Sex, attachment and couple Psychotherapy. London: Karnac.