by Justine Leichtling, Psy.D. 

12th ANNUAL PSYCHOANALYTIC COUPLE PSYCHOTHERAPY EVENT

How does a couple promote a connection that helps each member consolidate and maintain a positive, vitalized sense of themselves as individuals within the couple? Join NCSPP and the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group for the 12th Annual Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Lecture to explore this question with Dr. Carla Leone. Dr. Leone will address how one thinks about and works with couples through the lens of Self Psychology. She will showcase the ways in which a self psychologist listens to the couple, honing in on what partners are needing and seeking from each other. 

Dr. Leone will elaborate her understanding of the concept of self-object experience and the ways in which capacities and characteristics of individuals and couples either foster or interfere with mutual self-object experience. Other concepts and ideas that will be addressed include empathic immersion, attuned responsiveness, close attention to narcissistic vulnerability, the rupture and repair sequence, and collaborative, experience-near interpretation. Dr. Rachel Cooke will serve as discussant.

Promoting Self-Object Experience Between Couples: The Application of Self Psychology and Related Theories to Couple Psychotherapy

Presenter: Carla Leone, Ph.D.
Discussant: Rachel Cooke, Psy.D.

Saturday, October 26, 2019
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704

To register, go to https://ncspp.org/events/annual-psychoanalytic-couple-psychotherapy-event-2019.