Training Instiute for Mental Health

Couple Therapy Training Program Albert J. Brok, PhD, Director / Ellen Gussaroff, PhD, LCSW, Co-Director / Delverlon Hall, EdD, LMSW, Assistant Director Mini-Workshop Series 2016 In Collaboration with Film Committee, Section I, Division 39, APA ___________________________________________________   Saturday March 19, 2016 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM REACHING THE UNREACHABLE OTHER Issues of Trust, Expectations, and Resilience   Presenters: Albert J. Brok, PhD, and Ellen Gussaroff, PhD _______________________________________________________ 3 CEUs will be offered for this workshop   This program will focus on the stunning Swedish film 'Force Majeure' (2014). Discussion will highlight the film's stark look at intimate couple dynamics, male and female expectations, and the challenge of reaching the 'unreachable other.' Presenters will discuss a powerfully destabilizing event in a close family, and its fallout of denial, disavowal, shame and mistrust. Therapeutic approaches to working with gender-related conflict and narcissistic vulnerability will be discussed., together with ways of enhancing resilience and recovery from trauma in couple relationships. ____________________________________________________________________ Albert J. Brok, PhD is Director of the Couple Therapy Training Program at the Training Institute for Mental Health in New York City. His most recent publication is the chapter on Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy in Case Conceptualization in Couples Counseling, M. Reiter and R Chenail, Eds., New York: Routledge, in press 2016.   Ellen Gussaroff, PhD, LCSW, is Co-Director of the Couple Therapy Training Program at the Training Institute for Mental Health. She has presented at many national and international conferences, most recently at the IPA in Prague (2013) and Boston (2015) regarding issues in intimate relations. ____________________________________________________________________ Fees: Professionals: $35 Students: $15 TI Students: Free Pre-Registration is advised. Payment can be made by credit card at www.timh.org/calendar.html or by phone at 212-627-8181. Payment may also be made by check written out to: Training Institute for Mental Health, 115 West 27th Street Fl 4, New York, NY 10001. Cancellation required 48 hours in advance for refund.