At the heart of every healthy, fulfilling relationship lies the unshakable knowledge that we can trust another person with the care of our whole well-being. Yet most of us arrive at our relationships with triggers, traumas, and old patterning that can make this kind of intimacy challenging. In this episode, Dr. Tatkin is joined by licensed psychologist and CIIS Associate Professor of Community Mental Health Elizabeth Markle for a conversation offering insights for therapists and couples alike about repairing relationships and reigniting love.
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Elizabeth Markle - Hello, hello, Dr. Stan Tatkin. Thank you so much for being here with us this evening. Elizabeth - Yeah. Well, I'm so grateful that we have some time here to have a conversation. I'm hoping our conversation can really be sort of wide ranging. Elizabeth - Great. So I'm wondering if you can start by just telling us a little bit about who you are and how you came to be interested in dating and partnership relationships.
Tatkin - It's strange, isn't it? If you're like me, you look backwards and everything makes sense. You go forward and nothing makes sense. I think it's the fog of the present and the future. So, I actually come from a show business familyβin music. And so I grew up in music, was a professional musician for most of my young years until I was 26 and then I quit.
And I floundered and then I had my best friend at the time was a studio musician, as was I, and he was a psychologist. And he introduced me to a fellow called Hal Stone. Some people might know that name, voice dialogue. And Hal was my first mentor and suggested I go back to school and get my ticket. So I did at around 29, 30 and I never looked back. I loved this field and I still do. So I was trained early in systems, structural and strategic family systems, which is in PACT, my approach, and Gestalt Psychotherapy, which is in my approach.
