Instructor: Robert Waska, Ph.D. (long-distance teaching via Zoom videoconference)

Location: Upper West Side TBA and Long-Distance via Zoom Videoconference

4 Contact Hours (CEUs) for social workers licensed in NY State

Course Description:

Couples therapy involves complex treatment challenges and unique dynamic conflict.  Modern Kleinian therapy provides an in-depth object relational approach to understanding and working with couples in crisis.  Transference, counter-transference, enactments, projective identification cycles, and pathological compromise formations or retreats are examined as important elements of psychoanalytic technique with couples. Case material will be used to illustrate aspects of theory and clinical approach.

At the conclusion of this program, students will be able to :

1. Identify underlying dynamics that couples seek help with yet remain loyal to and how to interpret the internal phantasy that links the couple

2. Describe elements of the Modern Kleinian psychotherapy approach to couples treatment, both from a theoretical and clinical perspective

3. Explain the psychoanalytic method of working with transference, counter-transference, projective identification and anxiety states within a couples treatment setting

Cancellation requests made more than 3 weeks prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within 3 weeks of the event, for no-shows on the day of the event, or for missed events. For further information, for information about accessibility for participants with disabilities, or to address grievances, please contact tania@cpcpnyc.com Contemporary Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy of New York, NY LCSW, PC, CEP #0263 is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. Course completion certificates will be awarded via email, to those who have attended the full length of all sessions in a course, after the completion of an online course evaluation.