Tavistock Relationships Authors Series 1 – Sharing Psychic Space (Andrew Balfour)

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

The intimate couple relationship contains relationship templates formed in infancy and beyond, and significant residues of early trauma and conflicts that have the potential to lead to or prevent further development and growth. A major challenge to this development occurs when there is a profound difficulty in “sharing psychic space “without feeling taken over or psychically annihilated. When there are two viewpoints, a fear arises that one will invalidate or obliterate the other. Andrew Balfour describes how these couples function at a predominantly paranoid-schizoid developmental level and become trapped in with “either/or” struggles between “my way” versus “your way”.

This course includes a 26-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 – Interpretation in Couple Psychotherapy: An Attachment-Informed Perspective (Dr Chris Clulow)

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

Therapy has historically been viewed as a ‘talking cure’. This is called into question by Dr Christopher Clulow who considers the process of psychoanalytic couple therapy from an attachment perspective, highlighting the potential for working with the nonverbal communication of affective states. Attachment theory highlights the significance of behaviour for communicating about emotional experience.

This course includes a 23-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 – 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 – Couples on the Couch: Working Psychoanalytically with Couple Relationships (Stan Ruszczynski)

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

In this course Stan Ruszczynski explores the psychoanalytic approach to thinking about couple interaction, and understanding what enables and what inhibits or prevents couple well-functioning. The video lecture demonstrates the importance of this approach: that ‘we are the products of our relationships, and our ways of relating shape our world’. Central to the psychoanalytic model of the mind is that human nature develops and is fundamentally based on intrapsychic, interactive, and interpersonal processes — processes necessary to meet the needs and requirements of the developing individual.

This course includes a 27-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: How to Make the Transition to Working Online, and How to Develop Good Practice (Complete Set) – MULTI-BUY SAVING

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

Pierre Cachia, Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Head of Tavistock Relationships’ Online Therapy Service, has been responsible for establishing and developing ground-breaking work in this area. In this online self-directed learning course he will share his expertise and learning from his experience of heading up the service and from his own clinical work.

Consideration will be given to the implications of using the internet for therapy, including ethical and legal issues, and there will be discussion of the technical challenges which face clinicians when working in this way.

The question will be addressed of whether online therapy is essentially the same as face-to-face therapy, requiring an extension of existing models, or whether it changes our ideas of what psychotherapy can do.

This full series covers:

Part 1 – The Online Medium: Characteristics, Opportunities and Limitations

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

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

This course set includes: three video lectures of durations 40 mins, 1 hour and 6 mins, and 45 mins; accompanying presentation slides PDFs for each video; and a reading list.

Online Therapy Part 1 – The Online Medium: Characteristics, Opportunities and Limitations

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

In this self-directed learning course, Pierre Cachia, Tavistock Relationships’ Head of Online Therapy discusses the online medium, characteristics, opportunities and limitations.

Topics include:

• Terminology
• Digital Immigrants and  Digital Natives
• Psychic Space and Cyberspace
• The Online Disinhibition Effect
• Positive and Negative Aspects of Cyberspace
• The Culture of the Online Medium
• The Good and Bad of eTherapy

Included in this course are a video lecture of approximately 40 mins duration, a presentation slides PDF and a reading list.

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.

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.

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.)