Workshop
for Couples
On-Going Couples Workshop
Romantic Love, Intimacy and
Sexuality
"The Dance of the Couple"
A Couples Workshop (individuals
welcome)
"Romantic Love" is the single greatest energy system in
the Western psyche. In our culture it is the arena in which men and women seek
meaning, transcendence, wholeness and ecstasy.” Robert A. Johnson, We (p.
xi)
The “Dance of the Couple”
Saturday, October 7, 2017, 8:30
AM-12:30 PM
Joan Jutta Lachkar, Ph.D. and
Richard Seigle, M.D.
$100 Dollars per Couple ($50.00 FOR SINGLE)
This workshop explores healthy
romantic love and intimacy and how living with people with personality
disorders (narcissist, borderline) can destroy its capacity. It offers
specific approaches and techniques to explain the psychodynamics of the couple.
It also explores how and why couples stay in painful, conflictual, destructive,
never ending, relationships, traumatic bonding or what Dr. Lachkar refers to as
“The Dance” (how one partner projects a negative feeling onto the other and how
the other then identifies or over-identifies with it). This workshop is based on
numerous articles and books on treatment of the narcissistic personality
disorder particularly as it affects interpersonal love relations. Even though
this workshop focuses mainly on narcissism, the narcissistic does not live
alone but overlaps with many other personality disorders. Much has been written
about narcissism, addressing not only its theoretical aspects, the
psychodynamics and defense mechanisms within the spectrum of various kinds of
narcissists. But few have addressed how to actually communicate with one and
how their defenses destroy the capacity to maintain an intimate loving
relationship.
This workshop is suitable for
couples or half couples willing to explore aspects of intimacy, communication,
and mindfulness. We then explore common complaints that create conflict in
couples and their resolution.
Dr. Jutta Lachkar is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist in private practice in
Sherman Oaks, California, an affiliate member for the New Center for
Psychoanalysis, is the author of such ground breaking books as The
Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: Psychoanalytic Perspective on
MaritalTreatment, How to Talk to a Narcissist, How
to Talk to a Borderline, Courts Beware of the Borderline and the Disappearing Male. This workshop is based on Dr. Lachkar's twenty-five
years of clinical experience and many theoretical perspectives including
classical psychoanalysis, self-psychology, ego psychology, objective relations,
attachment theory, and contemporary theorists.
Joan Jutta Lachkar, Ph.D. is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist in private practice
in Sherman Oaks, California, is an affiliate member for the New Center for
Psychoanalysis, is the author of such ground breaking books as, The
Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: Psychoanalytic Perspective on
Marital Treatment, How to Talk to a Narcissist, How
to Talk to a Borderline: Common Complaints that Bring Couples in
Treatment, Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women, The
V-Spot, The Disappearing Male, and
Courts Beware of the Borderline: Implications for Mediation (in process). Dr. Lachkar is also a
psychohistorian has published numerous papers and articles on marital and
political conflict in addition as a classically trained ballet dancer and
performer treats many individuals in the entertainment industry. www.joanlachkarphd.com
Richard Seigle, M.D., has worked with individuals and couples for over 40 years.
His background includes physical, spiritual and psychological modalities.
For Further Information
Please Contact:
Joan Jutta Lachkar, Ph.D.
818 290 3390 (office)
310 413 9593 (cell)
Romantic Love, Intimacy and Sexuality
The Dance of the Couple
Workshop Schedule
Saturday, October 7, 2017
8:00
- 8:25
Registration
and Continental Breakfast
8:30
- 9:00
Welcome and
Introductory Comments
Ground Rules / Group Introductions
9:00
- 10:15
Defining Couple
Therapy
Defining the Narcissist His/her Majesty the Narcissist
Different Types of Narcissist
(Pathological, Malignant, Antisocial, Depressive, OCD, Passive-Aggressive (The
“Poor Me” Victim, the Artist, the
Cross-Cultural)
10:15
- 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30
- 12:00
The Dance, the Bond and the Drama of the Couple
Why
People Stay Bonded to Painful Relationships
·
Psychodynamics of the Couple (shame vs. guilt, envy vs. jealousy
etc.)
·
Communication Techniques –
·
Language of Empathology
·
How to Listen (or not listen)
·
Case/Role Play/Group Exercise
12:00-12-30
Tavistock Method/Closing Thoughts
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