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The psychobiologically oriented couple therapist understands that the intersubjective, phenomenological process operating in primary attachment relationships relies heavily on fast acting implicit memory systems. Because partners in a relationship rarely know what they are doing or why, they confabulate meaning in the absence of real understanding. In therapy, partners use deception to protect themselves from loss. To find out who partners are, what they really want, and what they are up to in the first or second session, it is up to the couple therapist. In this workshop we will learn to accept deception in couple therapy is a part of normal human behavior while using specialized techniques to help partners clarify themselves and their agendas in an effort to move them toward secure functioning.

The educational objectives are listed.

1. To be able to list at least four common behavioral markers of deception.
2. To be able to apply at least three interventions for bringing deception out into the open.
3. To be able to identify somatic markers that conflict with partner narratives.

Session may be edited to preserve confidentiality.