The Integrative Addiction Treatment Program: A Clinical Evening on Relationships, Pleasure, and Addiction

The Integrative Addiction Treatment Program

Nafarashim Institute for Psychotherapy Research and Teaching,

At the School of Behavioral Sciences, Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College

Happy to invite you to a clinical evening:

Relationships, Pleasure, and Addiction

Rachel Zigel and Noam Israeli

The meeting will be held online.

On Thursday, 18.11.21, between 19:30-21:00

Registration fee: 70 NIS

The evening will deal with marital pleasure and its relationship to addictions.

Delight is an exception to the dimension of pleasure. That is, it is a search for and experience of pleasure that is ongoing and goes beyond the experience of pleasure.

Freud described the dimension of pleasure as an organizing and regulating principle of the self, in contrast to Lacan, who saw enjoyment as a dimension that endangers the self.

The danger to the self from pleasure is related to the self's deviation from itself and harm to the object of desire.

In the treatment room, couples bring pleasure through a departure from previous sexual and marital patterns - cultural and personal - and an increasing use of psychoactive substances. Is this pleasure a source of a new type of marital difficulties? Is it a way to represent the difficulty in maintaining sexual and marital desire? A change in the relationship as we knew it? In order to think about these questions, we will open the evening by characterizing the differences between pleasure and pleasure. We will try to examine the connection between pleasure and addictions by presenting case studies through the following questions: Are pleasure and addiction related to each other? If so, in what way? Are they related - together and separately - to the history of the couple? And if so, in what way? Are they related to excitement and boredom in marital life and the culture of the contemporary world? Through these questions, we will present ways of working with the tension between addiction and marital pleasure in individual and couple interventions.

Noam Israeli - Certified couple and family therapist and instructor in the Israeli Association for Couple and Family Therapy. Previously, he was part of the team at the Community Mental Health Center in London, England. Full lecturer, MA in Psychology and Existential Psychotherapy, Regent's University, London. Upon returning to Israel, he was a member of the Shinui Institute team and director of the training center in family and couple therapy at the institute and a member of the 'Love' project for systemic treatment for people with AIDS. Works at a private clinic in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, member of the 'Aba' team, a counseling center for fathers in Tel Aviv. Instructor of teams in various settings.

Ms. Racheli Zigel is a clinical social worker and certified family and couples therapist, instructor and lecturer. The academic director of the course. An expert in treating addicts and their families, and in trauma and crisis situations, loss and bereavement, and specializing in treating victims of sexual trauma. She owns a private clinic in the Sharon area. In the past, she was part of the addiction treatment team in the "Ilanot" community, and managed the hostel for the community's graduates. She also managed the addiction treatment unit in Kiryat Ono. She led the unit in the field of family, couple, and dyadic treatment for addicts and their families. She also facilitates groups and workshops and trains treatment teams.