WIRED FOR LOVE: A PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO COUPLE THERAPY (PACT)

'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 SCHORE, author of 'Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self'.

Wired for Love: A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) focuses on the effect of early attachment on brain and nervous system development, as well as specific neuroendocrine issues related to interpersonal stress. Enactment of experience is emphasised over cognition or psychological interpretation. Interventions often entail therapeutically-staged moments intended to trigger arousal and implicit somatoaffective experience and memory. A PACT-trained clinician attends to each patient's moment-to-moment variations and shifts in affect and arousal as observed in the face, body, and voice. These macro and micro state changes occur rapidly in couples work. This training enables clinicians to discover and analyse psychobiological cues and other bottom-up (implicit) processes that reveal what top-down (explicit) approaches cannot.

Couples often enter therapy due to intense periods of mutual dysregulation whereby attachment injuries and adaptations become reanimated. The therapist needs a knowledge of the neurobiological processes that underlie primary attachment relationships, and a coherent narrative to explain where the couple has been, where they are, and where they must go. This training integrates three domains of developmental neuroscience, attachment theory, and principles of arousal regulation in treating couples typically thought of as untreatable. Attendees are introduced to an approach to adult romantic relationships that helps illuminate how and why adult primary relationships succeed and fail. Didactic, experiential, and multimedia learning are used.

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STAN TATKIN, Psy. D., MFT, developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT), integrates neuroscience, attachment, and arousal regulation and applies these disciplines to adult primary attachment relationships. In addition to his private practice, he runs training programs for certification in PACT across the USA and 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 into psychoneurobiological theories of human relationship, and integrating principles of early mother-infant attachment with adult romantic relationships. Dr Tatkin is a veteran member of Allan N. Schore's study group, and has trained in the Adult Attachment Interview with Mary Main and Erik Hesse's at the University of California, Berkeley.

He is author of Love and war in intimate relationships: Connection, disconnection, and mutual regulation in couple therapy with Marion Solomon, Norton, 2011, and Wired for love: How understanding your partner's brain can help you defuse conflicts and spark intimacy, 2012, New Harbinger.

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