[Audio] CC11 Workshop 05 – The State of Affairs: Rethinking our Clinical Attitudes Towards Infidelity – Esther Perel, MA, LMFT

Description:Description:

Infidelity generally points out flaws in a relationship, and the revelation of an affair often triggers a crisis of trust and connection. We’ll examine the benefits and the costs of truth-telling and transparency, how couples can rebuild trust and intimacy, and how affairs can actually stabilize a marriage and prevent its dissolution. In particular, we will focus on how couples can turn the crisis into an opportunity. Combining didactic material, case studies and video vignettes, we will lay out a nuanced and multicultural therapeutic approach for working with extramarital relations, fantasized or real, disclosed or shrouded in secrecy. Infidelity generally points out flaws in a relationship, and the revelation of an affair often triggers a crisis of trust and connection. We’ll examine the benefits and the costs of truth-telling and transparency, how couples can rebuild trust and intimacy, and how affairs can actually stabilize a marriage and prevent its dissolution. In particular, we will focus on how couples can turn the crisis into an opportunity. Combining didactic material, case studies and video vignettes, we will lay out a nuanced and multicultural therapeutic approach for working with extramarital relations, fantasized or real, disclosed or shrouded in secrecy.

Educational Objectives:Educational Objectives:

1. Analyze three motivations and meanings behind affairs and ways to integrate them back into the relationship. Analyze three motivations and meanings behind affairs and ways to integrate them back into the relationship.
2. Identify 5 assumptions, values and personal experiences that influence our therapeutic work with Affairs.Identify 5 assumptions, values and personal experiences that influence our therapeutic work with Affairs.

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