BT18 Clinical Demonstration 07 – Lovers Pose – Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT

Description:

Few couple interventions are as elegant and beautiful as the lovers pose. It is like a surgical table for therapists to extract and repair deep, implicit memory issues between partners and, by proxy, original childhood caregivers. The therapist “casts” each partner into roles appropriate for the therapeutic direction as decided by the therapist. Though the lovers pose is as it sounds, for lovers holding one another, it is also the caregiver-infant pose, the Pietà pose (holding a dead loved one), and inner child pose. This demonstration will also provide instructions for getting into and out of the pose which involves a three-step process.

Educational Objectives:

1. List at least four different ways to cast partners.
2. Articulate the three steps for getting partners into and out of the exercise.
3. Demonstrate how to get partners to get into the pose.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*