Codependency in Adulthood
Enmeshment and Merger in the Parent-Child Relationship
Recorded Friday 27 May 2022
With Dr Aileen Alleyne, Dr Tamara Feldman, Mark Linington, Dr Arlene Vetere
CPD Credits: 4.5 hours
In this conference we will explore ways of working psychotherapeutically with those who are drawn into enmeshed adult relationships that inhibit healthy separation and autonomy. Enmeshment as an attachment style may originate with the needs of a narcissistic parent or family culture where personal boundaries are diffused, roles undifferentiated and an over-concern for the other can lead to a failure in autonomous development.
Paradoxically, the collusive, fused family, couple or parent-child dynamic may also enable a level of functioning for those family members, perhaps even preventing psychic collapse.
READ MORE...We will be asking how this pattern can be safely and gently shifted in therapy to allow for a healthy balance between autonomy and intimacy.
Our speakers will incorporate psychoanalytic, attachment, mentalisation, systems theory and trauma theory, as well as Minuchin’s family work, to make sense of the mechanisms of merger. In asking how the client can let go of this need for entanglement, we will examine how therapy can most effectively engender new relational capacities, letting go of the introjects that maintain a dysfunctional bond and allowing new interpersonal patterns to emerge.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits for 4.5 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate.
Access to the Talks On Demand runs for 365 days from the date of purchase.
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