Houston Psychoanalytic Society
Online Evening Lecture
Love Songs and Couples Therapy
Perrine Moran, M.A.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
7:30PM – 9:00PM Central Time

Live via Zoom
This event will not be recorded

Registration Fees
HPS Active Member: Free
HPS Student Member: Free
Non-Member: $30

1.5 CME/CEU/CE Credits

Instructional Level: Beginner - Advanced
REGISTER NOW
The dilemma of how to be emotionally dependent on another without losing oneself permeates many popular love songs and underlies issues that couples often bring to therapy. Its management results in different dynamics which place partners in couples on a spectrum going from too close to too far apart. This presentation will explore where the ability of love songs to trigger emotion and echo couple dynamics originates. It will highlight how songs can help a therapist’s thinking and interventions when listening to the unconscious “music” of couples’ interactions. Finally, reference will be made to a case study in conjunction with a particular song and couple dynamic and to concepts borrowed from mentalization theory.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending the program in its entirety, attendees will be able to:
  1. Describe how the ability of songs to trigger emotion is linked to the process of individuation that characterizes primary relationships and continues to be negotiated in adult relationships.
  2. Describe how popular love songs can help a therapist’s thinking and interventions when listening to couples (as illustrated in a clinical case.)
Presenter
Perrine Moran, MA. (BPC, BACP accred.) is an individual and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a Visiting Clinician, Lecturer, and Supervisor at Tavistock Relationships, where she co-leads a ‘Mentalization-Based-Treatment with Couples’ course and supervision group. She has taught psychoanalytic couple theory internationally as well as on two Master programs at Tavistock Relationships. She was a Visiting Lecturer and Supervisor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is the Arts Editor for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and a member of the editorial board of the “Revue” of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. She is bilingual, works with individuals and couples in English and in French, and has a private practice in London. She is currently writing a book to be published by Karnac Books. The provisional title is Love Songs – Listening to Couples. Before training as a psychotherapist, Perrine Moran was a lecturer in French Literature at the University of London, and an actress in Paris, where she ran a fringe theatre in the basement of a Cuban restaurant.

REFERENCES
Clulow, C. (2020). Blue heaven: Jazz as a connector and disrupter in family and community relationships. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 10(1): 72-86.

Erel-Brodsky, H. (2016). I’m all ears – Thoughts on psychoanalysis: The musical reverie. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 52(4): 578-601.

Grier, F. (2019). Musicality in the consulting room. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100(5): 827-851.

IMAGE of valentine fireworks from Shutterstock
Agenda
7:30 - 7:35 pm | Introduction
7:35 - 8:30 pm | Presentation by Perrine Moran
8:30 - 9:00 pm | Presenter-led question and answer session
Disclosures
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Houston Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support. 
Houston Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Houston Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

HPS, through co-sponsorship with the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, also offers approved CEUs for Texas state-approved social workers, licensed professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists.
1302 Waugh Dr. #276, Houston, TX 77019
(713) 429-5810
Facebook  Twitter  Linkedin