Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition Paperback
Author: Visit Amazon's Harville Hendrix Page - ISBN: 0805087001 - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
DESCRIPTION
Review
"Hendrix provides much insight into how spouses can mature through one another."—Booklist
"Harville Hendrix offers the best program I've seen for using the love/hate energy in marriage to help a couple heal one another and to become whole together."—T. George Harris, Editor-in-Chief, American Health
"I know of no better guide for couples who genuinely desire a maturing relationship."—M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled
"Getting the Love You Want is a remarkable book—the most incisive and persuasive I have ever read on the knotty problems of marriage relationships."—Ann Roberts, former president, Rockefeller Family Fund
"Getting the Love You Want provides a road map for partners seeking a path to intimacy and passionate friendship."—Marion Solomon, Ph.D.
"This book will help any couple find the love they want hidden under all the concealing confusion of a close and intimate relationship. I have seen these principles in application and they work!"—James A. Hall, M.D.
Book Description
In Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Harville Hendrix presents the relationship skills that have already helped hundreds of thousands of couples to replace confrontation and criticism with a healing process of mutual growth and support. This extraordinary practical guide describes the revolutionary technique of Imago Relationship Therapy, which combines a number of disciplines--including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, among others--to create a program to resolve conflict and renew communication and passion.
Getting the Love You Want describes the three stages of intimate relationships, provides illustrative case studies and gives helpful recommendations to overcome the obstacles in those stages to create a stronger bond between couples. First, he chronicles the stages of most relationships-attraction, romantic love and the power struggle-and suggests ways for partners to identify the conflicts associated with each of them. Then, he explores methods for achieving a "Conscious Marriage," where the early phases of romance are rekindled and confrontation is slowly replaced by growth and support. Finally, Dr. Hendrix incorporates these ideas into a unique therapeutic course, offering a series of proven exercises that lead to insight, resolution and revitalization. Step by step, he describes how to communicate with greater accuracy and sensitivity, how to let go of self-defeating behaviors, and how to focus energy on meeting each partners' needs.
With Getting the Love You Want couples in any stage of a relationship can resolve their conflicts and achieve mutual emotional satisfaction.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Getting the Love You Want describes the three stages of intimate relationships, provides illustrative case studies and gives helpful recommendations to overcome the obstacles in those stages to create a stronger bond between couples. First, he chronicles the stages of most relationships-attraction, romantic love and the power struggle-and suggests ways for partners to identify the conflicts associated with each of them. Then, he explores methods for achieving a "Conscious Marriage," where the early phases of romance are rekindled and confrontation is slowly replaced by growth and support. Finally, Dr. Hendrix incorporates these ideas into a unique therapeutic course, offering a series of proven exercises that lead to insight, resolution and revitalization. Step by step, he describes how to communicate with greater accuracy and sensitivity, how to let go of self-defeating behaviors, and how to focus energy on meeting each partners' needs.
With Getting the Love You Want couples in any stage of a relationship can resolve their conflicts and achieve mutual emotional satisfaction.
See all Editorial Reviews
DETAILS
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Henry Holt & Co; Revised and Updated edition (December 26, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0805087001
- ISBN-13: 978-0805087000
- Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Books > Self-Help > Relationships > Love & Romance
- #16 in Books > Parenting & Relationships > Marriage & Adult Relationships
- #17 in Books > Self-Help > Relationships > Interpersonal Relations
REVIEWS
318 Reviews Start reading Getting the Love You Want 20th Anniversary Edition on your Kindle in under a minute Don 39 t have a Kindle Get your Kindle here Getting The Love You Want 20th Anniversary Edition A Guide the Love You Want 20th Anniversary Edition the Love You Want A Guide for Couples Paperback Getting the Love You Want A Guide for Couples 20th Anniversary Edition Paperback I work with couples who want to restore Getting the Love You Want by Getting the Love You Want 20th Anniversary Edition A Guide for Download Getting the Love You Want A Guide for Couples 20th Anniversary Edition by Harville Hendrix narrated by Jack Garrett digital audio book Get the Audible eBook Paperback Hardcover Getting the Love You Want A Guide for Couples 20th Anniversary Edition A Guide for Couples 20th Anniversary Edition The Love You Want A Guide For Couples 20th A Guide For Couples 20th Anniversary Edition not download links for the ebook of Getting The Getting the Love You Want A Guide for Couples 20th download at 4shared Getting the Love You Want A Guide for Couples 20th Anniversary Edition Getting the Love You Want 20th Anniversary Edition by With a New Afterword 20th Anniversary Edition A Guide for Couples Trade PaperbackShare your videos with friends family and the world
The relationship/self-help book market is booming. When looking for one of these books you are presented with a bewildering array of "experts" and "specialists", each with their pet theories about where men and women come from or what "rules" you should apply to your relationship.
It is rare to find a book written by an author with solid academic credentials and years of clinical practice. This book is one such find.
The book is organized into three parts. In part I, Dr. Hendrix describes the type of relationships most of us have - "Unconscious Marriage". In this section, he details how our childhood experiences, self image and ideals of romantic love combine to create an unstated power struggle between spouses. Often many books stop at this point, assuming that the reader can now go forth and solve their problems. Fortunately Dr. Hendrix continues.
In the second part, he describes what a more fulfilling relationship might look like, the "Conscious Marriage". He describes how to begin with commitment, stop destructive exit patterns, creating a zone of safety, understanding yourself and your partner, how to begin real self growth and containing rage. He closes by providing two examples of marriages that have been transformed by applying these techniques. The exercises and approaches described by Dr. Hendrix are hard. His most meaningful techniques are not quick tricks but require a lot of introspection and self awareness. As he mentions in his book, many couples may require external assistance (we did). However, his techniques provides lasting changes in the way that you interact with your partner.
The final part of the book is a series of exercises that help drive how the major points in each chapter of the preceding two sections.
PREVIEW
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition DOWNLOAD
No comments:
Post a Comment