Come share ideas, techniques, and resources for how psychotherapists can help people enhance their intimate relationships. This group is for mental health professionals and anyone else who relishes enthusiastic in-depth discussions of clinical theory and practice.

Each meeting starts with a presentation, after which we discuss the topic and socialize.

Past topics:

• What predicts divorce?
• Using behavior modification techniques to improve your relationship
• Three kinds of love: infatuation, lust, and long-term bonding
• Attachment theory and attachment therapy
• Useful ways to understand emotional and physical abuse
• A brief history of couples therapy

Future topics:

• Passion in long-term relationships: Why does it fade, and how can it be rekindled?
• Using relationship therapy to treat "individual" problems such as depression and alcoholism
• The first three floors of Gottman's Sound Relationship House
• The risks of using insurance to pay for couples therapy

Note: This group respects all forms of consensual intimate relationships.