
Catching up with Stan Tatkin
The Science of Psychotherapy
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How Does Pack Work With This Kind of Danger Situation?
Couples think it's about the topic, you know, money, time, mess, sex, kids. It really isn't. It's the manner in which they interact as soon as one or both of them are under stress. That repeats every time. We actually will put them in, we call them containers. These are little tasks, little games, experiments, play where we put them under pressure to see how they will interact. And what we find is that couples think it’s about the topic,. you know,Money, Time, Mess, Sex, Kids, and it really isn't; it's their interaction when they're stressed.
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