Couples Therapy: Using Themes and Metaphor to Mobilize Change
Sit in on therapy with the masters! This program is part of the innovative "Brief Therapy Inside Out" video series - a unique series that puts you directly in the therapy room to watch as leading therapists demonstrate their approaches in 45-minute, unrehearsed clinical sessions with real clients (not actors).
He wants her to be more independent; she wants him to be more caring. She initiated the therapy because she's afraid they might not make it without help; he agreed to therapy because they seem to keep miscommunicating.
Enter internationally renowned couples and family therapist Peggy Papp, a supervising faculty member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. Papp's intention is to help this young couple change in the ways they want to change. During the live clinical interview, Papp quickly unveils the basic themes of survival and responsibility underlying the union, as well as hidden strengths and exceptions, before turning to her primary task: the introduction of new beliefs that may better serve the couple's ends.
