by Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group (PCPG)

PSYCHOANALYTIC COUPLE PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP ANNUAL LECTURE 2023

Saturday, October 21, 2023, from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm.

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Join PCPG for our Annual Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Lecture of 2023 at the Brower Center in Berkeley, CA (also available online). Perrine Moran, MA, from Tavistock Relationships, is the PCPG invited-scholar presenting her paper, “I'll Be Your Mirror: Love Songs and Couples – a Mentalizing View," with discussant Adam Kremen, Ph.D. She will explore the ability of love songs to trigger the emotions experienced in infancy and in adult couple dynamics. The love song, “I'll Be Your Mirror,” by the Velvet Underground (1966), will serve as the starting point for considering the process of “mirroring” in early development as well as in adult couple relationships. She will show how concepts from Mentalization theory can be applied to clinical work with an enmeshed couple to help the therapist’s mirroring with a couple who is resistant to change.