61st Annual Conference

Master Workshop 43a
The Pair and the Person:  A Group Analytic Approach to Therapy for Intimacy and its Problems

Chair:              

John Schlapobersky, B.A., MS.c., Memb Inst. G.A., Consultant

Psychotherapist, Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture, London, Enland

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy experience

In couples work in London, group analysis & object relations provide an integrated theory for treating clinical and relational problems using individual, marital & group therapy.  The theory will be examined.  Its usefullness in assessment will be demonstrated with video & role-play and its application to individual, group, conjoint, 4-way, and couples group therapy will be discussed.

demonstration-sharing of work experiences-didactic-experiential

Course References:

1. Schlapobersky, J. (2001). The "Easy Hand": The Problems of Domestic Violence in

    Marital Psychotherapy.The Bulletin of the Society for Psychoanalytic Marital

    Psychotherapy. London.

2. Dicks, H. (1989). Marital Tensions. London: Karnac Books. 

3. Skynner, R. (1986). Recent Developments in Marital Therapy, in Explorations With

    Families: Group Analysis and Family Therapy.  Routledge, London.