Continuing Education by Dr. Robert M. Gordon

Program 1

I Love You Madly! On Passion, Personality and Personal Growth

What does it take to have a lasting love relationship? Dr. Robert Gordon shows that the course of love is fairly predictable based on the personalities and histories of the lovers. Only insight and mutual concern can help change this path. He explains the psychology of romantic love from both personal and professional perspectives. Along the way, he integrates evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis and social psychology in the context of dramatic stories of love and psychotherapy. Learn how to recognize healthy love relations from relationship killers such as narcissism, defensiveness and hostility. I Love You Madly! informs about the science of psychology, yet reads as an entertaining novel.

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This home study course is intended for any psychologist wishing to be more informed about healthy and unhealthy love relations as a reference for research or for therapeutic work with patients.

Educational Objectives: Learn what is romantic love? Why does it often not last? Learn what are the love disturbances and how does one recognize them? Learn what does one do about them?

Program 2

Balance and Integration in Psychoanalytic Group Therapy

This home study course is intended for any psychologist wishing to be more informed about group psychotherapy.

Educational Objectives: Learn how the group therapist can run more effective groups using the balancing function. Check the Group Therapy DVD Outline!

After thirty years of theoretical formulations, I pull them all together in my comprehensive model of love relations by integrating evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive and social psychology. This theoretical model lets us see why relationships can be so irrational.

Program 4

Ethics and the Difficult Person: What the New PDM Can Teach Us All

Learn about the clients who are most likely to create ethical dilemmas and lodge frivolous ethics complaints based on their personality traits. Learn how the new Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM 2006) and psychodynamic formulation can help you spot difficult patients better than the DSM. Find out about the Borderline Level of Personality Organization that is often lurking under other overt personality presentations. Learn about the research supporting these formulations. This home study workshop qualifies for three contact hours for the ethics requirement (check your state's specific requirements).

PRESENTER: Robert M. Gordon, Ph.D., ABPP, in Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. The Institute for Advanced Psychological Training(IAPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IAPT maintains responsibility for the programs. Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors can receive continuing education from continuing education providers approved by the American Psychological Association.