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Attached is an interview about Healing Together: A Couple’s Guide for Coping with Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress for the Journal of the National Organization of Psychologists in Italy. You will see the scanned version from the Italian Journal and below a translation of the interview in English. The interview was conducted by the editor, Dr. Raffaele Felaco. Dr. Phillips met with him and his colleagues when she went to Rome this past summer to offer a Program for International Caregivers and those Italian psychologists and psychiatrists working with survivors and families of the Italian earthquake in L’Aguila in April ’09. The program was entitled “Group Response to Trauma and Disaster: Lessons Learned by The American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) in the aftermath of 9/11” and included three separate workshops given by Dr. Suzanne Phillips and other AGPA at the 17th Congress International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP) Rome, Italy 8/24/09 & 8/29/09

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Desperately Keeping Someone: Relationships as Addiction
Suzanne B. Phillips, Psy.D

“Desperately Keeping Someone: Relationships as Addiction,” By Suzanne B. Phillips Psy.D. published in Analytic Insights, The Journal of the Suffolk Society for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, 2002, Vol. 1, 64-74. This article presents an understanding of the dynamics of dependent relationships that persist with less and less fulfillment and more and more pain as addictions. “ One sees in addictive relating a confused sense of self and an increased dependence on a misconstrued version of the other…..”

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Two's Company, Three's Not a Crowd: A Relational Approach to Couple Intervention After Trauma This article considers that trauma to one or both partners disrupts a couple's relationship in a way that compromises safty, assults definitions of self and other, locks partners into patterns of defensive pain, impairs mutual regluation of needs, interferes with the capacity to mourn, and makes strangers intimate partners.

Excerpt From:
Group: The Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, Vol 32.3, September 2008 available here with the permission of Mental Health Resources, 44 W. Bridge St. Catskill, NY 12414

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