International Summer School in Couple and Family Psychotherapy is an introductory course to «Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Psychotherapy» requalification Program. The teachers of the course are the leading faculty of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI, US): David Scharff, internationally recognized expert in psychoanalytic family and sex therapy and Janine Wanlass, professor of psychology at Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah).
Couple and family psychotherapy is one of the most promising and rapidly developing areas in psychotherapy of our time. Being quite well-known and popular in the West, it has not yet gained due recognition in Russia. Participation in the School's events provides a great opportunity to be introduced to the specifics of the couple and family therapy, get precious knowledge and skills from the leading world experts and to enhance one's professional opportunities.
We invite practicing psychologists, students and others who are interested in the field.
Would you like to learn more about the history, development and specifics of the family therapy? We invite you to read David Scharff's interview for academica.ru.
Read the Interview
Readings (Book chapters):- J. S. Scharff and D. E. Scharff, The Primer of Object Relations, 2nd Edition (In Russian)
- D. E. Scharff and J. S. Scharff, Object Relations Couple Therapy. (In Russian)
- D. E. Scharff and J. S. Scharff, Object Relations Family Therapy. (In Russian)
- J. S. Scharff and D. E. Scharff, Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (in Russian