Love and War in Intimate Relationships: A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (Interpersonal Neurobiology) (Norton Series on Interpersonal ... and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy: 0 - Hardcover

Marion Solomon; Stan Tatkin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393705757 ISBN 13: 9780393705751

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011

Synopsis

Neuroscience and couples therapy come together to help couples break patterns of bad behavior. What happens between partners that makes love turn to war? How can couples therapists help de-escalate the battles? Here, two leading therapists apply the latest neuroscience research on emotional arousal to teach readers to help couples regulate each other's emotions, maintain their secure attachment, and foster positive relationships.

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Review

After completing the first reading of this wonderful text, this reviewer reflected that Maurice Merleau-Ponty, pioneering phenomenologist of the intersubjectively lived body, would have resonated positively to the deeply insightful thematic content and the creatively conceived experiential techniques and therapeutic experiments of this ground-scaffolding, psychobiologically informed text.

This book should be part of the working library of any clinician whose practice is informed by the ongoing paradigm shift in psychotherapy.--Allan N. Schore, PhD, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Reading this book was a sheer pleasure, and I did not skip a word. It is an artful theoretical and clinical integration with no wasted words....In this innovative couple therapy, they have documented the healing power of couples learning to take care of each other and put to rest the myth of the healing capacity of the autonomous self. I recommend this instructive book to all therapists....I hope this project gets lots of deserved attention.--Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of Getting the Love You Want

I found this book full of new ideas for me, providing me with new thoughts, feelings and skills, even though I have been practicing therapy with couples for more than three decades. Simply put, this is the most transformative book on psychotherapy I have read in a long time.

A new lens on couple therapy, this book will revolutionize the way you work with partners and transform your view of relationships. The authors skillfully translate ideas from neuroscience, regulation theory, mindfulness, and attachment research into hopeful, practical and accessible interventions for working with the here and now experience of couples in therapy.--Pat Ogden PhD, Founder/Director, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and author, Trauma and the Body

What a gift! Solomon and Tatkin offer us the most illuminating and creative work on couples therapy to be published in a long time. Through a variety of cases, they artfully explain why loving partners go to war with each other and then give a fascinating demonstration of how to apply biology, physiology, attachment and arousal regulation in moment-to-moment interactions. This book will be stimulating, immediately practical and eye-opening no matter what theoretical orientation you use.--Ellyn Bader, PhD, Director, The Couples Institute

For clinicians who are in search of practical examples to complement theory, the case illustrations offered by Solomon and Tatkin are a tremendous resource....[A]n easy and insightful read.

About the Author

Marion Solomon is director of clinical training at the Lifespan Learning Institute. Stan Tatkin maintains a practice in Calabasas, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393705757
• ISBN 13: 9780393705751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288