Austin PACT TRAINING
A Psychobiological Approach To Couples Therapy®
2011

   
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Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT) focuses on early attachment
and its effect on brain and nervous system development as well as specific
neuroendocrine issues related to interpersonal stress. The PACT methodology
emphasizes enactment of experience over cognition or psychological
interpretation. Interventions often entail therapeutically staged moments
intended to trigger arousal and implicit somatoaffective experience and memory.
A psychobiologically-trained clinician meticulously attends to each patient’s
moment-to-moment variations and shifts in affect and arousal as observed in the
face, body, and voice. In couples work especially, these macro and micro state
changes occur extremely fast. Among many other things, this training will enable
clinicians to discover and analyze psychobiological cues or “tells” and other
bottom-up (implicit) processes that reveal what top-down (explicit) approaches
cannot.
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