Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – Complete Set – Introducing Couple Psychotherapy – MULTI-BUY SAVING

In this self-directed learning set featuring six online lectures, you will be able to watch contributions by Tavistock Relationships authors who have played a major part in the development of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Stanley Ruszczynski, Mary Morgan, Warren Colman, Dr David Hewison, Andrew Balfour and Dr Christopher Clulow will introduce you to some of the key thinking that underpins the Tavistock Relationships psychoanalytic approach to thinking about couple interaction. The aim is to highlight what enables and what inhibits or prevents couple well-functioning.

This set contains the individual courses:

• Sharing Psychic Space (Andrew Balfour) – (26-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• Interpretation in Couple Psychotherapy: An Attachment-Informed Perspective (Dr Chris Clulow) – (23-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• The Intolerable Other: The Difficulty of Becoming a Couple (Warren Colman) – (24-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• Shared Unconscious Phantasy in Couples (Dr David Hewison) – (19-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• The ‘Couple Analytic Setting’ and the Psychic Development of the Couple (Mary Morgan) – (29-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)
• Couples on the Couch: Working Psychoanalytically with Couple Relationships (Stan Ruszczynski) – (27-minute video lecture, question set and reading list)

(CPD certificates are available on request for people who have completed each of the six component courses – 2 hours CPD per component course, 12 hours in total.)

Psychological Processes in Divorce (Complete Series) – MULTI-BUY SAVING

(Purchase allows 3 months access.)

This online course features all three components in the series Psychological Processes in Divorce and Separation.

Part 1: Introduction and Legal Process. Part 2a: Model of a Couple and Couple Functioning. Part 2b: Types of Divorce and Couple Functioning in Divorce.

Psychosexual Studies: Sexual Dysfunctions – Female Disorders

(Purchase of this product allows 3 months’ access.)

In this self-directed learning course Couple/Individual Psychotherapist and Psychosexual Therapist Linsey Blair discusses female disorders and their causes.

Issues covered include:

• arousal
• vaginismus
• disapareunia
• psychological factors
• the prescription of suitable lubricants for certain conditions.

In addition to the lecture a case study is presented, using the genogram as a tool to look at the issues involved.

Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – The Intolerable Other: The Difficulty of Becoming a Couple (Warren Colman)

(Purchase of this course allows 3 months’ access).

In this course Warren Colman describes an aversion and hostility to relating due to the difficulty of relating to an other who is different from ourselves and who does not conform to our wishes. This can become a stuck pattern in couples striving for omnipotent perfection in themselves and others to avoid the pain of loss and disappointment, especially, he says, when loss is experienced as equivalent to abandonment.

This course includes a 24-minute video lecture, question set and reading list.

(A 2-hour CPD certificate for this course is available on request for people who have completed this self-directed learning.)

Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – Shared Unconscious Phantasy in Couples (Dr David Hewison)

(Purchase of this course allows 3 months’ access).

Dr David Hewison, Head of Research and Ethics at Tavistock Relationships, presents a historical review of ideas about unconscious phantasy in couples, and looks at how unconscious phantasies within a couple’s relationship are defended against by various symptomatic interactions, each preferable to a feared catastrophe. The presentations ends with questions for the clinician to bear in mind within their practice.

This course includes a 19-minute video lecture, question set and a recommended reading/references list.

(A 2-hour CPD certificate for this course is available on request for people who have completed this self-directed learning.)

Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – The ‘Couple Analytic Setting’ and the Psychic Development of the Couple (Mary Morgan)

(Purchase of this course allows 3 months’ access).

In this course Mary Morgan discusses how she tackles the fundamental challenge of finding meaning, particularly the unconscious meaning of symptoms, behaviour and experience, central to the psychoanalytic way of thinking and working. If we can discover meaning then this is part of the process of containment.

In this lecture, anonymised case material is used to illuminate the process involved.

This course includes a 29-minute video lecture, question set and reading list.

(A 2-hour CPD certificate for this course is available on request for people who have completed this self-directed learning.)

Online Therapy Part 2 – Technology in the Therapeutic Frame: Getting the Setting Right for Our Clients

(Puchase of this course allows three months’ access.)

In this self-directed learning course, Pierre Cachia, Tavistock Relationships’ Head of Online Therapy discusses technology in the therapeutic frame and getting the setting right for clients.

Topics include:

• Computer System Requirements for Online Therapy
• How to Choose Your Videoconferencing Software
• Ensuring a Reliable Connection
• Selecting Hardware and Peripherals for Online Therapy
• Preparing a Suitable Clinical Space for Delivery of Online Therapy
• Being Well Prepared as a Clinician for Online Therapy
• Becoming an Online Patient
• Contingency Planning and Using Successful Protocols in Your Online Practice

Included in this course are a video lecture of approximately 1 hour and 6 mins duration, a presentation slides PDF and a reading list.

Online Therapy Part 3: Reflections from Online Practice: Interpretation and Therapeutic Intervention in Online Therapy

(Purchase of this course allows three months’ access.)

In this self-directed online learning course, Pierre Cachia, Tavistock Relationships’ Head of Online Therapy reflects on his experience of online practice and discusses interpretation and therapeutic intervention in online therapy.

Topics include:

• Management of Risk and Safeguarding Confidentiality
• Issues Around Jurisdiction and International Delivery
• Counter Indications for Online Therapy
• Working in a Different Frame
• Visual Composition as Communication
• What Does the Image from the Webcam Convey
• Implications of Operating in Cyberspace
• Reaching New Populations

Included in this course are a video lecture of approximately 45 mins duration, a presentation slides PDF and a reading list.

Psychological Processes in Divorce – Part 1. Introduction and Legal Process.

(Purchase allows 3 months access.)

In this first in a set of three videos Dr Avi Shmueli, Psychoanalyst, Psychotherapist and Head of Tavistock Relationships’ Divorce and Separation Service discusses the legal process of divorce.

The Impact of the Internet on Couple Relationships

(Purchase of this course allows the user access for one year.)

Marian O’Connor (Head of Training for Psychosexual Therapy at Tavistock Relationships) and Professor Brett Kahr (Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships) consider the compulsive use of the internet “being constantly drawn into the world of virtual relationships” and the questions this poses in regard to one’s capacity for intimacy within couple relationships.

This video seminar will be of interest to practitioners working with individuals and couples who are struggling to understand the meaning and management of the internet on their relationships.

Developments in Thinking About Same-Sex Parenting and Couple Relationships

(Purchase allows the user one years’ access.)

In this self-directed learning course Dr Damian McCann, Head of Development Learning at Tavistock Relationships, Dr Fiona Tasker, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, and Jess MacIntyre, Project Manager at LGBT Consortium, discuss same-sex parenting in relation to couple relationships.

Parental Conflict and the Effects on Children’s Development

This self-directed learning course features Leezah Hertzman interviewing Professor Gordon Harold about parental conflict and how it can impact on on outcomes for children.

(Purchase of this course entitles they buyer to one year’s access of the materials.)