Master the foundations of couple therapy with Dr. Robert Neuburger
Couple therapy
- The beginning of therapy
- The therapeutic setting
- In person or remote
- The adequacy of the request for therapy
- Inadequate requests
- Welcoming the request
- Understanding the problem
- Circularity
- The main difficulties of couples
- Couples without couple problems
- The system’s plasticity
- The question of separation
- Sexuality
- Physical contact
- Intervening in the sexual sphere
Interview simulations
- Pierre and Nathalie - First session
- Pierre and Nathalie - Second session
- Pierre and Nathalie - Debriefing
- Danielle and Julie - First session
- Danielle and Julie - Second session
- Juliette and Thomas - Second session
- Danielle and Julie - Third session
- Danielle and Julie - Fourth session
- Danielle and Julie - Fifth session
- Rachel and Jean-Baptiste
- Juliette and Thomas - First session
Techniques and Tools
Floating objects, metaphorical devices and intervention strategies
When speech runs out of steam, mutual understanding jams or the system gets bogged down in sterile repetitions, it becomes essential to be able to rely on creative techniques and symbolic tools to relaunch the therapeutic process.
A panorama of clinical devices
This chapter offers a panorama of clinical devices from the systemic tradition, tested and proven in couple or family therapy. Some have become classics of the systemic practitioner’s toolbox (coat of arms, sculpture, problem basket), others are bold contemporary creations, such as the crossed-beliefs game or the Systemic Cartouche.
Each tool is presented in its theoretical anchoring and its practical use, through demonstrations, clinical examples and adaptation proposals — insisting on the conditions under which each tool can prove powerful, relevant, or on the contrary counter-productive.
“Floating” objects
All these objects have in common that they are floating: they circulate in the therapeutic space, escape the sole logic of the verbal, and allow a symbolic co-construction of meaning, through play, gesture, image or metaphor.
Whether you are at the beginning of the therapeutic journey or facing a blockage, these tools offer strategic and sensitive supports to stimulate the alliance, bypass resistances or reactivate the intelligence of the bond.
10 lessons
- The family map (genogram)
- The problem basket
- Relatiogram - Belonging-gram
- The systemic cartouche
- Phenomenological sculpting
- The couple’s coat of arms
- The crossed-beliefs game
- Techniques for difficult interviews
- Managing conflicts in session
- Amour Monstre