Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples - Softcover

PhD, Hendrix, Harville

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250310539 ISBN 13: 9781250310538

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2019

Synopsis

In Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen Hunt offer the relationship skills that have helped millions of couples replace confrontation and criticism with a process of mutual support that facilitates healing and growth at any stage of a relationship. This extraordinary practical guide describes the revolutionary technique that combines a number of disciplines - including the behavioural sciences, depth psychology, social learning theory, Gestalt therapy, and interpersonal neurosciences, among others - to create a program that transforms conflict into creative tension that deepens connection and renews passion. In a new forward and chapter, Hendrix and Hunt offer a new perspective of what a relationship is and where we should focus our attention and energy. Reversing the assumption that prioritises the individual, the authors show how tending to the needs of the relationship first will ensure that the needs of the individual are met. By shifting our conversational methods away from negativity and towards affirmation, a safe and encouraging environment is built that reduces anxiety and allows couples to thrive. The chapter also includes practical exercises - proven invaluable in couple’s therapy - to achieve the goal of intimate partnership full of life, joy, and wonder.

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About the Authors

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., is the author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, a New York Times bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. He has more than thirty years' experience as an educator and therapist. He specializes in working with couples in private practice, teaching marital therapy to therapists, and conducting couples workshops across the country. Dr. Hendrix is the founder/director of the Imago Institute for Relationship Therapy. He lives in New Jersey and New Mexico.

Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD., is co-creator of Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents. She and her husband, Harville Hendrix, have more than thirty years' experience as educators and therapists and their work has been translated into more than 50 languages, with Imago practiced by two thousand therapists worldwide. Helen and Harville have six children and live in New York and New Mexico.

They are the coauthors of Getting the Love You Want.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250310539
• ISBN 13: 9781250310538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400