Florida Psychoanalytic Center

**Dr. Young Eisendrath will appear in person**

Presentation Summary:
Historically, people in committed relationships have felt shame about separating. Now, they feel ashamed when they stay and their demands for equality are not met. Many of use expect fairness and reciprocity, whether or not we know anything about negotiation. We expect to be seen and known and to speak freely and authentically. These expectations create anxiety and confusion for intimate partners and other adult pairs (e.g. adult child and parent), contributing to cycles of humiliation, rage and blame. One painful outcome is an epidemic level of estrangement among families and individuals.

Dialogue Therapy was developed precisely to treat these kinds of entanglements and breaks in trust. It uniquely focuses on creating and sustaining “dialogical space” by working through intergenerational patterns, in ways that encourage and teach respect for differences and reduce hostilities.

This brief introductory presentation of Dialogue Therapy (DT) will include didactic, clinical, and experiential learning about how it addresses unconscious emotional communication and broken trust. Regardless of whether you work with couples or not, you will learn about the contribution of projective identification to couples problems and ways to work through it, including how to do so in the therapist-patient relationship.

Presenter:
Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a psychologist, writer, speaker, and Jungian analyst who is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Real Dialogue in Vermont. She has published 19 books including, The Self-Esteem Trap:Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance and Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path. She is the co-author, with Jean Pieniadz, Ph.D., of Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides: Methods Based on Psychoanalysis and Mindfulness. She maintains a clinical practice in central Vermont. She also hosts the popular podcast ENEMIES: From War to Wisdom, which provides a fresh look at human hostilities and what to do about them. She has a new podcast that examines the current fads, fictions and potentials of psychedelics, meditation, and other kinds of awakening: Walking Up is Not Enough: Flourishing in the Human Space. She is a lifelong Buddhist practitioner and Mindfulness teacher.

Doors open for Registration, Coffee, & Continental Breakfast at 8:15am
Program begins promptly at 8:45a.

3 CME/CEU’s credits available

(This program will not be available through Zoom.)