Clinician, author, researcher, Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT) developer, and co-founder of the PACT Institute. Dr Stan Tatkin is an assistant clinical professor at UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine. He maintains a private practice in Southern California and leads PACT programs in the US and internationally. He is the author We Do, Wired for Love, Your Brain on Love, Relationship Rx, Wired for Dating, What Every Therapist Ought to Know, and co-author of Love and War in Intimate Relationships, and the upcoming, In Each Other’s Care.

His upcoming book, Relationship Repair will be out in April 2023

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00:00 - Intro

03:42 - Stan’s beginnings

05:49 - The Psycho-biological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) approach to navigating relationships

08:19 - Associating the feeling of safety with love

11:04 - Humans are living longer - should we question the longevity that’s demanded upon intimate relationships?

15:43 - How to establish a purpose and vision as a couple

19:50 - One partner wants kids and the other doesn’t - a deal breaker?

27:31 - Strategies to overcome stressful interactions: take time out or talk it through?

36:17 - Your relationships are a mirror of you, how not to externalise problems

37:36 - Is it toxic to put other person's interests before your own?

47:23 - How to compromise

49:49 - Domestic violence stems from when survival is threatened

53:27 - Exploring monogamous, polygamous relationships

56:42 - PACT Institute & new book In Each Other’s Care

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