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Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

Amazon ASIN: 0060972920 LowestNewPrice CurrencyCode USD LowestNewPrice FormattedPrice $0.65 LowestUsedPrice CurrencyCode USD LowestUsedPrice FormattedPrice $0.01 LowestCollectiblePrice CurrencyCode USD LowestCollectiblePrice FormattedPrice $14.00 TotalNew 57 TotalUsed 925 TotalCollectible 10 TotalRefurbished 0

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Author Harville Hendrix Binding Paperback DeweyDecimalNumber 306.7 EAN 9780060972929 ISBN 0060972920 Label Harper Perennial Type Original Language Type Unknown Type Published CurrencyCode USD FormattedPrice $14.00 Manufacturer Harper Perennial NumberOfItems 1 NumberOfPages 320 ProductGroup Book PublicationDate 1990-02 Publisher Harper Perennial Studio Harper Perennial Title Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

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Product Description
This national bestselling breakthrough guide (more than 400,000 copies sold in both editions) offers a realistic and accessible program to help couples heal one another and become whole together.

Amazon.com Review
When Harville Hendrix writes about relationships, he discusses them not just as an educator and a therapist, but as a man who has himself been through a failed marriage. Hendrix felt the sting of his divorce intensely because he believed it signaled not only his failure as a husband but also his failure as a couples counselor. Investigating why his marriage dissolved led him to start looking into the psychology of love. Marriage, he ultimately discovered, is the "practice of becoming passionate friends."

As a result of his research, Hendrix created a therapy he calls Imago Relationship Therapy. In it, he combines what he's learned in a number of disciplines, including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, to name just a few. He expounds upon this approach in Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. His purpose in writing the book, he says, is "to share with you what I have learned about the psychology of love relationships, and to help you transform your relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship."

Divided into three sections, the book covers "The Unconscious Marriage," which details a marriage in which the remaining desires and behavior of childhood interfere with the current relationship; "The Conscious Marriage," which shows a marriage that fulfils those childhood needs in a positive manner; and a 10-week "course in relationship therapy, " which gives detailed exercises for you and your partner to follow in order to learn how to "replace confrontation and criticism ... with a healing process of mutual growth and support." The text is occasionally dry and technical; however, the information provided is valuable, the case studies are interesting, and the exercises are revealing and helpful. By utilizing his program, Hendrix hopes you too will be able to solve your marital difficulties without the expense of a therapist. --Jenny Brown

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