What's Going On?: Using Unified Detachment to Help Shift Perspective in Couple Therapy

When people are locked in conflict with their partners, they often feel as if the other person’s behavior is happening to them out of nowhere and that theirreactions are simply the inevitable response of their partner’s bad behavior. When both people in a couple do this at the same time, stalemate ensues,with each person waiting for the other to change before they will put down their own defenses. In this presentation, Dr. Mayville will describe how usingstrategies from Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy and other modalities can help clients shift from gridlock to curiosity so that they have moreflexibility in how they react to relational stressors. *1 CE credit available to WCM Department of Psychiatry full time and voluntary faculty Psychologists, Social Workers and LMHCs, who attend the entire lecture, sign in via the EEDS system, and who complete an evaluation through EEDS within 30 days of lecture. Please contact wcmpsychiatryce@med.cornell.edu for additional CE information.