Speaking For Lawyers & Specialists
Marital Minefields: Why Some Couples Can’t Stand To Be Together Or Apart
High conflict couples feel they are in a fight for their psychological lives. In their conflict, they have found a riveting connection that at the same time, keeps them at a safe emotional distance. Lawyers and mental health professionals who too strongly advocate for their client often find themselves embroiled in another variation of the couple’s typical pattern: let’s you and him fight. Dr. Beth will show how to exercise your fiduciary responsibility to everyone without becoming embroiled in and exacerbating the couple’s fight.
Children As Spoils In High Conflict Divorces
Children in high conflict divorces are double bound and hapless. Either they are high jacked by one parent who pits them against the other by insisting they take their side, but then at least they have one parent. Or they end up emotional orphans, stuck in a no man’s land while their parents lob emotional hand grenades at each other over their heads. Statistically according to Johnston, 67% of children of high conflict divorces are only children without siblings. These children have no one. Dr. Beth will discuss the damage to these unfortunate children, suggest strategies for avoiding these tragic situations, and offer options for mopping up the messes created by adversarial approaches to divorce.
Longing For Dad: Father Loss and Its Impact
Far from being disposable and optional as some believe, knowledge of and contact with their birth father is essential for children’s healthy development. Yet, far too many children experience a dad who is not there even when he is home. Worse yet, others’ information about who their father becomes distorted in the midst of divorce wars, abuse or addiction. Dr. Beth will discuss the ways that relationships with both father and mother are essential to the development of a child’s self-image and what happens when that knowledge is missing.
When Dick and Jane Grow Up: Fathers, Sons, and Daughters
Boys get anointed man enough by their fathers, and girls get a safe place to practice being women. What happens in adulthood when children are deprived of a healthy relationship with their birth father? That loss often sits like a lost Atlantis sunken in their entrails. The relationships they create usually are highly conflictual. Their parenting often goes from one extreme of smothering to the other of emotional neglect. Dr. Beth will discuss emotional results of father loss and suggest strategies for its prevention.
Dr. Erickson is happy to develop other topics that fall within her area of expertise for meeting planners.
To book Dr. Beth Erickson:
Call: 1-888-546-1580
Email: DrBethErickson@aol.com
Write to: Dr. Beth Erickson, 5200 Willson Road Suite 150 Edina, MN 55424
Fax: 952-546-5554
