Attachment Approaches to Couples Therapy

Stan Tatkin, PhD

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Once in a while, a clinician comes along and really contributes ideas which move the field forward in a significant way.  Stan Tatkin is one of those individuals. Stan is at the cutting edge of couples therapy, as his soon-to-be-released book Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couples Therapy (co-authored with Marion Solomon) will demonstrate.  He will spend the day with us at Fairleigh Dickenson University in Madison talking about attachment theory and how it can be applied to diagnosing and treating core wounds in a couple.  He uses video tape of couples, live demos, lecture, and his engaging sense of humor to make his concepts come alive. 

Just over a year ago, Stan gave a memorable workshop to the New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program faculty, and was afterwards invited to return for a more intense, day-long presentation.  He is a member of Allen Shore's study group in California, and applies attachment data gleaned from Mary Main's Adult Attachment Inventory to couples work. His clinical techniques are innovative, and demonstrate how neuro-psychological issues unfold with couples.  Stan emphasizes that therapists rely too much on words during couples therapy; he emphasizes non-verbal, action-oriented interventions to provide critical healing when working with highly distressed couples. 

Register by going to CPPNJ's website www.cppnj.org.  While you're there, we invite you to check out the New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program.  We are currently accepting applications to our second group of trainees with classes to begin in February 2011. Classes are held on Fridays at GSAPP (Rutgers) in Piscataway (with a possible second location in northern Jersey).  E-mail us at dcgphd@yahoo.com if you would like to talk about our program further.

Location: Lenfell Hall, The Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ

Cost: Faculty and Others: $165  Candidates:$65  Students with ID:$35

This program has been approved by NASW-NJ to offer 6 clinical continuing education credits to social workers.