Contact:
Kara HoppeA Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy®
karalynnhoppe@gmail.com
323-642-8003
When
Friday, September 28, 2012 -- 2:00pm-9:00pm
Saturday, September 29, 2012 -- 9:00am-4:30pm
Friday, December 7, 2012 -- 2:00pm-9:00pm
Saturday, December 8, 2012 -- 9:00am-4:30pm
Friday, March 1, 2013 -- 2:00pm-9:00pm
Saturday, March 2, 2013 -- 9:00am-4:30pm
Friday, June 7, 2013 -- 2:00pm-9:00pm
Saturday, June 8, 2013 -- 9:00am-4:30pm
Where
Fairleigh Dickinson University285 Madison Avenue
Hartman Hall
Madison, NJ 07940
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Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach To Couples TherapyŽ (PACT) which integrates neuroscience, infant attachment, arousal regulation, and therapeutic enactment applied to adult primary attachment relationships. He maintains a practice in Calabasas, California, and runs a bi-weekly clinical study group for medical and mental health professionals (www.stantatkin.com) and training programs in California, Denver, Washington, Texas, New Jersey, and Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Tatkin received his early training in developmental object relations (Masterson Institute), Gestalt, psychodrama, and family systems theory. His private practice specialized for some time in the treatment of adolescents and adults with personality disorders. Over the last decade, his interests branched out toward psycho-neurobiological theories of human relationship, integrating principles of early mother-infant attachment with adult romantic relationships. He speaks to professional audiences on subjects of couples therapy and preventative psychotherapy through early intervention with infants, children and their parents. He has published several articles on the psychobiology of couples' therapy and is currently training therapists on his unique approach to couples work using attachment theory, neuroscience, and principles of arousal and affect regulation.
Dr. Tatkin was a primary inpatient group therapist at the John Bradshaw Center where, among other things, he taught Mindfulness to patients and staff. He was trained in Vipassana meditation by Shinzen Young, Ph.D., and was an experienced facilitator in Vipassana. He was also trained by David Reynolds, Ph.D., in two Japanese forms of psychotherapy, Morita and Naikan.
Dr. Tatkin was clinical director of Charter Hospital's intensive outpatient drug and alcohol program, and is a former president of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Ventura County chapter.
In addition to his private practice, he teaches and supervises first through third-year family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, through which he is an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. He is also adjunct faculty for Antioch University, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and California Lutheran University.
Dr. Tatkin is a veteran member of Allan N. Schore's study group. He has trained in the Adult Attachment Interview through Mary Main and Erik Hesse's program out of University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author with Marion Solomon of Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy from Norton's Interpersonal Neurobiology Series and author of Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain Can Help You Defuse Conflicts And Spark Intimacy from New Harbinger.
New Jersey PACT Professional Training -- Level 1
A Psychobiological Approach to Couple TherapyŽ (PACT) focuses on early attachment and its effect on brain and nervous system development as well as specific neuroendocrine issues related to interpersonal stress. The PACT methodology emphasizes enactment of experience over cognition or psychological interpretation. Interventions often entail therapeutically staged moments intended to trigger arousal and implicit somatoaffective experience and memory. A psychobiologically-trained clinician meticulously attends to each patient’s moment-to-moment variations and shifts in affect and arousal as observed in the face, body, and voice. In couples work especially, these macro and micro state changes occur extremely fast. Among many other things, this training will enable clinicians to discover and analyze psychobiological cues or “tells” and other bottom-up (implicit) processes that reveal what top-down (explicit) approaches cannot.
PACT trainings meet 4x/year on Fridays (2:00pm-9:00pm) and Saturdays (9:00am-4:30pm).
Course includes:
- Face-to-face meetings 4x/year
- Online Level One self-study tutorial
- Online meetings 2x/year
- Online discussion group,
- Extensive online library
- CEUs available for most health professionals at an extra fee.
Testimonials
"Stan Tatkin's creative model of marital psychotherapy is an outstanding example of an effective emotionally focused treatment that integrates current advances in neurobiology and attachment theory with solid clinical practice. His pragmatic therapeutic approaches resonate well with current research on the essential role of the right brain in emotional communication, bodily processes, developmental processes, and affect regulation. I highly recommend the groundbreaking work of this gifted teacher." |
Allan N. Schore, Author of Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self |
"Stan Tatkin has succeeded in integrating attachment theory and neuroscience in a model of treating couples that is on the cutting-edge. As he shows videotapes of his work with couples, it is clear that we are in the presence of a gifted clinician. Even more, he has the ability to convey his ideas in a clear and concise manor. Those attending his weekend training seminars leave with skills that they can apply with their patients on Monday morning."
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Marion F. Solomon, Ph.D., Author of Lean on Me, and Narcissism and Intimacy: Love and Marriage in an Age of Confusion |
"Stan has the most innovative approach to working with couples that I've seen in years! Learning from Stan Tatkin is a delightful experience. You will be able to integrate attachment and neuroscience concepts in a practical way that your clients will find helpful immediately. Don't miss this opportunity!" |
Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., The Couples Institute; Author of In Quest of the Mythical Mate, High Impact Couples, and Tell Me No Lies. |
"Dr. Tatkin is an excellent teacher and a skilled therapist. His psychobiological, attachment approach to high arousal and pseudo-secure couples produces outstanding therapeutic results as they learn to acknowledge, respect and understand one another. I have great confidence when referring difficult, dysregulated couples to Dr. Tatkin." |
Eileen Gallo, Ph.D., Coauthor of Silver Spoon Kids: How Successful Parents Raise Responsible Children and The Financially Intelligent Parent: 8 Steps To Raising Successful, Generous, Responsible Children. |
"Dr. Tatkin taught one of the best received seminars we've ever offered. He is wonderfully excited and knowledgeable about what might be called the inter-neurobiology of couples and about how to use this knowledge in the understanding and treatment of couples. He also is a gifted and remarkably generous teacher able to explain difficult concepts simply and providing a wealth of information. As if that weren't enough students will have the opportunity to study with someone whose thinking about the pseudo-secure couple is an important contribution to the field." |
Daniel Hill, Ph.D., Director of PsyBC.com |
TERMS OF AGREEMENT
The training group meets four times per year for two consecutive days. The training requires a full-year commitment (eight consecutive meetings) with financial responsibility. Please do not join if you believe you cannot fulfill such a commitment. Fee is $1750.00 payable either prior to or on the first meeting, after which the fee increases to $1,850.00. If more convenient, four separate installments $462.50 can be made at each weekend meeting. Payment can be made by check, cash, credit card or via PayPal. Continuing education credits are available through Lifespan Learning Institute (LLI) at a fee of $50 payable to LLI when requesting a certificate. Each request from LLI is $50 and is collectable only at the end of each calendar year. Missed meetings can be made up during a subsequent weekend in a different city. If you cannot make up a missed day during that same weekend you remain financially responsible for the missed meeting. Audio recordings and notes are sometimes available from peers if prior arrangements are made.
“In the service of demystifying Love and War in Intimate Relationships, Solomon and Tatkin have woven together coherent narratives of sessions with couples and correlated them with commentary on their therapeutic rationale and the theoretical basis to produce a brilliant and luminous integration of attachment theory, neuroscience and mindfulness. In this innovative couple’s therapy, they have documented the healing power of couples learning to take care of each other and put to rest the myth of the healing capacity of the autonomous self. I recommend this instructive book to all therapists, but especially to therapists who want to help couples co-regulate and co-heal each other.”
Harville Hendrix, Ph. D., Imago Therapy Institute; Author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved
“In this cutting edge volume, Solomon and Tatkin make an important and unique contribution to a deeper understanding of the treatment of couples. These master clinicians have creatively integrated very recent neuroscience, attachment theory, updated models of relational psychotherapy, and rich case material to produce a clinically complex and scientifically-based approach to working more effectively with both the minds and the bodies of both members of an intimate dyad. This book should be part of the working library of any clinician whose practice is informed by the ongoing paradigm shift in psychotherapy.”
Allan N. Schore, Author of Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self
“Within these pages you will find a fascinating presentation of basic principles that can transform how you understand and carry out couples’ therapy. Combining the creative minds of two leaders in the field of helping relationships heal, Love and War in Intimate Relationships carries us into this new way of thinking by drawing on two important bodies of knowledge: attachment research and neuroscience.”
Daniel J. Siegel, Mindsight Institute; Author of The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, and The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
“In Love and War, the authors skillfully translate ideas from neuroscience, regulation theory, and attachment research into hopeful, practical and accessible interventions for working with the here and now experience of couples in therapy. You will find yourself on a compelling journey through the complexities of relationships as each author's unique approach is elucidated through case examples. A new lens on couple therapy, this book will revolutionize the way you work with partners and the way you view relationships.”
Pat Ogden, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute; Author of Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
“What a gift! Tatkin and Solomon offer us the most illuminating and creative work on couples therapy to be published in a long time. Through a variety of cases, they artfully explain why loving partners go to war with each other and they give a fascinating demonstration of how to apply biology, physiology, attachment and arousal regulation in moment-to-moment interactions. This book will be eye-opening no matter what your theoretical orientation is.”
Ellyn Bader , Ph.D., The Couples Institute; Author of In Quest of the Mythical Mate, High Impact Couples, and Tell Me No Lies.