Seattle 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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