<p> Certificate in The Study of the Couple Relationship</p><p>13 May 2017 – 9 December 2017 Saturdays: 10.15am – 4.00pm Venue: Central Bristol – 11 Orchard Street, Bristol BS1 5EH</p><p>Presenters include:</p><p>Liz Salter</p><p>Andrew Balfour</p><p>Mary Morgan</p><p>David Hewison</p><p>Julie Humphries</p><p>Catriona Wrottesley The day will usually follow the structure:</p><p>10.00 – 11.00 – Tavistock Relationships’ Presentation/seminar – paper 1</p><p>11.00 – 11.30 – Couple techniques and skills</p><p>11.30 – 11.45 – Morning break</p><p>11.45 – 1.00 – Clinical seminar/case discussion</p><p>1.00 – 1.45 – Lunch break</p><p>1.45 – 2.30 – Reading/discussion – paper 2</p><p>2.30 – 3.00 – Couple techniques and skills</p><p>3.00 – 4.00 – Clinical seminar/ case discussion </p><p>The Curriculum is as follows although the order might be subject to change:</p><p>13 May 2017</p><p>Shared unconscious relationship and Couple fit</p><p>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</p><p>Ruszczynski, S. (Ed.) (1993): Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies. Psychotherapy with Couples London: Karnac. Chapter 1. </p><p>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.</p><p>10 June 2017</p><p>The couple in mind</p><p>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</p><p>Ludlam, M (2007) Our attachment to the ‘couple in mind’. In: M. Ludlam & V. Nyberg (Eds.) Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies Karnac: London</p><p>1 July 2017</p><p>Unconscious phantasy and unconscious beliefs</p><p>Tarsh, H & Bollinghaus, E. (1999). Shared Unconscious Phantasy – reality or illusion. Sexual and Marital Therapy 14(2).</p><p>Hewison, D. (2014) Shared Unconscious Phantasy in couples. In: Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy. Eds. Scharff & Scharff. Chapter 2.</p><p>Morgan, M. (2010) Unconscious beliefs about being a couple. fort da Spring 2010 Vol XV1, No 1</p><p>Humphries, J. (2015) Working in the Presence of Unconscious Couple Beliefs. Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 4:2 9 September 2017</p><p>The couple relationship and containment</p><p>Morgan, M. (2014) What do we mean by containment in couple psychotherapy and in the couple relationship (unpublished paper)</p><p>Feldman, T. (2014) From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples. Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. 4:2.</p><p>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.</p><p>7 October 2017</p><p>Hate/ Aggression/ Violence</p><p>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.</p><p>Kernberg, O. (1995) Aggression, Love and the Couple. In: Love Relations Yale University Press, New York. Chapter 6 (pp. 81-97)</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>Sex/Sexualities/ Oedipal issues</p><p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>9 December 2017</p><p>Psychosexual therapy </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>Jane Seymour and Laura Green (2009) Loss Of Desire: A Psychosexual Case Study Sex, attachment and couple Psychotherapy. London: Karnac.</p>