The Pitfalls of Modern Intimacy: Love, desire, eroticism, infidelity, erotic imagination, emotional risk taking and more
$140.00
2 CE Hours
Presenter: Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
Recorded workshop available via video on demand
AASECT Category:
Human Sexuality Education
Section E
Overview:
The story of intimacy and sexuality in committed modern couples is one that often tells of dwindling desire. In this session, we’ll contrast two fundamental, yet opposing human needs: safety and predictability vs. freedom and adventure and how these play out in the sexual impasses of couples.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Assess the ambiguities of love and desire
- Describe how emotional history shapes our erotic blueprints
- Compare sexuality and eroticism
- Analyze gender similarities and differences within the concept of multiple sexualities
- Explain infidelity, transparency, and boundaries
- Explain the depth, complexity and healing qualities of erotic imagination
- Utilize innovative strategies to unlock blocks and cultivate emotional risks to open up sexual communication
About the Instructor:
Esther Perel’s keynotes often focus on issues of psychology, specifically pertaining to relationships. Perel is a psychologist who is originally from Belgium, but speaks nine languages. She specializes in issues concerning relationship dynamics between couples, work-life balance, cultural relations, conflict resolution and emotional and erotic intelligence.
Perel is also a best-selling and award-winning author. Her most notable book is Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic. It has been so well received that it is now available in 24 languages. Perel’s client list is long and noteworthy to say the least, it includes: Janssen Pharmaceutica, AT&T, Johnson and Johnson, Anthony Robbins Productions, The Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute, The Wexner Foundation, The Bronfman Foundation and New York University Medical Center.
In addition to her consulting and writing work, Perel manages to fulfill her psychotherapy practice obligations in New York City. When she’s not in New York, she’s travelling the world as a celebrated global speaker.
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Class originally recorded: 3/19/2021.
Social workers completing this course receive 2 general continuing education credits.
MSTI is an approved CE organizational provider for IBOSP, AASECT, and ASWB. Modern Sex Therapy Institutes is part of the Advanced Mental Health Training Institute. The Advanced Mental Health Training Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No.6901. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Advanced Mental Health Training Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
MSTI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. The Modern Sex Therapy Institutes maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Modern Sex Therapy Institutes (MSTI), provider #1787, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: [1/7/22-1/7/26].
Attendees must attend the entire course and complete a course evaluation to be eligible for CE credit
For Live Courses: To obtain CE credits, attendees must attend the entire course and complete an evaluation to receive credit.
For asynchronous/recorded courses, Attendees must pass the multiple choice posttest with a minimum score of 80% in 3 attempts to be eligible for CE credit.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded immediately upon course completion.