Peoplemaking

10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage

America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship

John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Joan Declaire

In 1994 Dr John Gottman announced that he and his colleaugesat the "Love Lab" could predict, with 90% accuracy, whether a marriage wuld succeed or fail. He then teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife to develo intervention methods to show how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one. This book is the result. Hundreds of thousands have seen their relationships improve thanks to the Gottmans' work. Whether you want to make a strong relationship more fulfilling or rescue one that's headed for disaster, this book is essential reading.

20x13cm

275 pages

$26.00

1001 Questions to Ask Before You Get Married

Prepare for Your Marriage Before You Say "I Do"

Monica Mendez Leahy

Love can be bliss, but marriage takes work. Communication, compromise, and joint decision making are key ingredients to a successful marriage. Using a variety of fun, interactive formats, including multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and hypotheticals, this books brings these and many other important issues that will arise in every marriage - including the ones that miay blindside you. This book helps couples explore common goals and perpectives as well as celebrating unique differences while preparing for a life together.

21x14cm

230 pages

$30.00

12 Hours to a Great Marriage

A Step-By-Step Guide for Making Love Last

Howard J Markman, Scott M Stanley and others

This group of authors from the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver have been helping couples around the globe replace loneliness with connection, frustration with understanding, fear with confidence, instability with commitment, revenge with forgiveness, and monotony with passion.
Their program is called PREP - Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program. Their book offers their simple, effective strategies. Each chapter covers one of the key ingredients of the program, like Being Best Friends, Having Fun Together, and Protecting and enhancing Your Love Life, and shows you how to take the steps that research shows are the basis for a long-term, healthy, loving marriage. By practicing the simple skills, taking the thought-provoking self-tests, doing the fun and innovative exercises, and reading real-life couples' inspiring and informative stories, you'll find that in twelve short hours you'll be well on your way to having that great marriage you've always dreamed of.

160x24cm

278 pages

$25.00

7 Things He'll Never Tell You

But You Need to Know

Kevin Leman

Dr. Leman wants readers to know that men are less complicated than women think they are. Men are sensitive, emotional beings that need to feel loved, respected, and needed. The more women understand and are sensitive to mens fears, anxieties, and insecurities, the stronger their relationships will be.

20x15cm

187 pages

$28.00

ACT with Love

Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Russ Harris

Through a simple program based on the revolutionary new mindfulness-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), you can learn to handle painful thoughts and feelings more effectively and engage fully in the process of living and loving together. With your partner or alone, ACT with Love will teach you how to: Let go of conflict, open up, and live fully in the present Use mindfulness to increase intimacy, connection, and understanding Resolve painful conflicts and reconcile long-standing differences Act on your values to build a rich and meaningful relationship

23x15cm

224 pages

$34.00

Affairs

A Guide to Working Through the Repercussions of Infidelity

Emily Brown

First she deciphers the five types of affairs, then she gives clear step-by-step procedures to help both partners deal with it and even grow from it. Well cross referenced and an excellent book

24x16cm

272 pages

$42.95

After the Affair

Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner has Been Unfaithful

Janis Abrahms Spring

Explains how partners can help themselves through the shattering crisis of an infidelity. Offers a series of original and proven strategies that address such crucial questions as,
Why did the affair happen?
Once love and trust are gone, can we ever get then back?
Can I-should I- recommit when I feel so ambivalent?
How do we become sexually intimate again?
Is forgiveness possible?

22x13cm

292 pages

$28.00

After Your Divorce

Creating the Good Life on Your Own (Rebuilding Books: Relationships-Divorce-And Beyond )

Cynthia MacGregor & Robert Alberti

It's over. The divorce is final, he's out of your house and mostly out of your life. Now what? Are you ready to get on with your life? Do you have dreams, plans, skills, energy for what comes next? And will you be making it happen, or letting it happen? MacGregor and Alberti have prepared a friendly, straightforward manual of advice and suggestions that assumes every woman is capable of handling life on her own. Helps for emotional recovery (MacGregor is a survivor, Alberti is a psychologist), practical matters (credit, home repairs), dealing with your ex (be assertive!), helping your children to cope (we didn't divorce you!), and much more.

22x16cm

238 pages

$35.00

Alone Together

Making an Asperger Marriage Work

Katrin Bentley

Alone Together shares the struggle of one couple to rescue their marriage. It is uplifting and humorous, and includes plenty of tips to making an Asperger marriage succeed. This book offers couples hope, encouragement and strategies for their own marriages.

24x17cm

128 pages

$32.95

An Asperger Marriage

Chris Slater -Walker

Chris and Gisela have been partners for twelve years. Five years ago Chris was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. For Chris, this was an explanation of why he had always regarded himself as 'socially handicapped'. For Gisela, it meant coming to terms with a marriage in which there would never be an intuitive understanding despite Chris's good intentions.
For the couple it was the beginning of a long and still unfinished process of learning to live with a disability regarded by some as incompatible with marriage.

23x15cm

160 pages

$33.95

And Baby Makes Three

The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives

John Gottmann

Having a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are strained during the transition from duo to trio. Lack of sleep, never-ending housework, and new fiscal concerns often lead to conflict, disappointment, and hurt feelings. This book teaches couples the skills from their successful workshops, so partners can avoid the pitfalls of parenthood by:
- maintaining intimacy and romance - replacing a culture of criticism and irritability with one of appreciation - preventing post-partum depression - creating a home environment that nurtures physical, emotional, and mental health, as well as cognitive and behavioral development for your baby Complete with exercises that separate the "master" from the "disaster" couples, And Baby Makes Three helps new parents positively manage the strain that comes along with their bundle of joy. AVAILABLE JAN 2008

20x13cm

272 pages

$26.00

Asperger Couple's Workbook:

Practical Advice and Activities for Couples and Counsellors (Workbook)

Maxine Ashton

Asperger Syndrome (AS) can affect some of the fundamental ingredients required to make relationships work, such as emotional empathy and communication. This workbook provides couples affected by AS with strategies that will benefit their relationship together, and their family as a whole. With candid advice, activities and worksheets, the book explores a variety of approaches that couples can use to improve their relationship. Whilst acknowledging that all relationships are different and each needs to be viewed as a unique case, the author identifies specific issues that can be problematic in an Asperger relationship. The book provides a range of ideas based on years of research and counseling experience and covers crucial areas such as verbal and non-verbal communication, sexual issues, parenting and home life. This practical book is designed for use by couples and families affected by AS, either on their own or in conjunction with a counselor.

23x17cm

144 pages

$39.95

Asperger Syndrome and Long-Term Relationships

Ashley Stanford

Married to a man with AS the author provides the answers to many of the questions asked by the increasing number of people in that situation. She explains how behaviours that may have appeared odd - or even downright irritating - are the manifestation of AS, and shows how understanding can lead to greater tolerance, or to change. Stanford provides a wealth of strategies for living successfully with the more uncompromising aspects of AS, pointing out that AS also brings enormous strengths to a relationship, and emphasizing the value of understanding. Including many quotes from people in long-term AS relationships, the book describes many positive solutions that have worked for other couples.

23x16cm

288 pages

$38.95

Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy

Susan M Johnson & Valerie E Whiffen, eds

This integrative work presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided on the nature of interactions between adult partners and among parents and chidren; the role of attachment in distressed and satisfying relationships; and the ways attachment-oriented interventions cn address individual problems as well as marital conflict and difficult family transitions. From leading clinicians and researchers, the volume offers both general stategies and specific techniques for helping clients build stronger, more supportive relational bonds.

15x23cm

411 pages

$65.00

Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist

The Workbook

Susan Johnson and others

The Workbook, companion to the revised second edition of The Practice of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy,is designed to facilitate the learning and implementation of EFT by providing explicit exercises that can be utilized by students as well as clinicians looking to increase their treatment efficacy. The inclusion of therapy session transcripts, multiple choices questions and an EFT Supervision model make this an especially attractive text for couples therapy coursework.

28x22cm

401 pages

$59.95

Becoming Parents

How to Strengthen Your Marriage as your Family Grows

Pamela Jordan, Stanley Scott and Howard Markm

Offers indispensable advice on how to protect and preserve your marriage and take care of yourselves as you become parents. Based on scientific research and containing real life examples, this book challenges new parents to seize this opportunity to really thrive in your relationship.

16x23cm

336 pages

$37.95

Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner

Schultheis, Gary

Help couples quickly develop the psychological skills they need to maintain healthier relationships As a couples therapist, you work to help your clients learn to understand and clearly communicate their feelings, identify how and when problems arise, and develop effective coping strategies. In today's managed care environment, rapid results are everything, and many psychotherapists are finding that pencil-and-paper homework exercises provide one highly effective tool for achieving those goals. The Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner arms you with dozens of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode.

224 pages

$89.95

Building a Love That Lasts

The Seven Surprising Secrets of Successful Marriage

Charles Schmitz, Elizabeth Schmitz

Reveals how to sustain a long-term loving marriage. In addition to exploring the seven key ingredients that define a successful marriage--togetherness, truthfulness, respect and kindness, staying fit, joint finances, tactile communication, and surprise and unpredictability--the authors have included hundreds of insightful and practical interviews with happy couples. Focuses on what's right about a successful relationship, rather than what's wrong.

23x16cm

306 pages

$22.95

Cartoon Marriage

Adventures in Love and Matrimony by the New Yorker's Cartooning Couple

Liza Donnelly, Michael Maslin

Love and marriage are cleverly exposed in this deliciously witty collection of more than 200 cartoons from married "New Yorker" cartoonists

21x21cm

279 pages

$45.00

Children of the Self-Absorbed

A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents

Nina Brown

Millions of adults have immature, self-absorbed parents who made their children responsible for their physical and emotional well-being. Here psychologist Brown helps grown children come to terms with the results of such an upbringing, including tendencies to overcomply to others' needs, withdraw when someone needs nurturing, and lack self-esteem.

23x15cm

180 pages

$28.00

Connecting Through Touch

Peggy Horan

Starting with a simple setting that can easily be accomplished with few special preparations, readers will learn, step-by-step, how to make a deep and meaningful connect with their partner's body. Using a combination of strokes from the most time-honored massage traditions, they will learn to be mindful of where their partner holds stress and tension. As the massage continues, readers will enter into a profound nonverbal dialogue with their partner, learning much from the simple act of contact with another body. All of the techniques are illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Elegant and refined, this book is a perfect gift for a special someone or a friend in love.

22x18cm

184 pages

$34.00

Counselling for Asperger Couples

Barrie Thompson

Counselling for Asperger Couples is the first book to provide a complete model for counselling couples where one partner has Asperger Syndrome (AS). The book provides details of the seven different stages of the model and includes anecdotal evidence from clients who have used it. The author explains the importance of initial separate counselling and describes the co-counselling process using case studies to demonstrate useful strategies. The book offers valuable advice on improving communication and cooperation and includes photocopiable activity sheets. Based on considerable experience, this book will be invaluable for counsellors treating couples where one partner has Asperger Syndrome. The book is also ideal for couples that want to improve their relationship but may not have access to counselling.

29x20cm

144 pages

$57.95

Couple's Guide to Love & Money

Jonathan Rich

Clinical psychologist Rich shows partners how to avoid finance-based conflicts and make negotiating money matters both pleasurable and productive. Quizzes and exercises reinforce these concepts and make learning them fun. A final section helps readers decide when to seek professional financial help

27x21cm

200 pages

$30.00

Crossing The Tracks For Love

What to Do When You and Your Partner Grew Up in Different Worlds

Ruby K Payne

A guide for successfully negotiating the barriers that divide economic classes, this book explores the ways that people from poverty, middle class, and wealth view the world and operate within it in terms of intimacy, gender roles, employment, entertainment, decision-making, raising children, dealing with in-laws, food and dining, and free time. It exposes the mindsets and attitudes that trigger conflict between people of different economic classes, and provides solutions you can use immediately to improve your relationships, smooth your own transition between classes, increase opportunities for someone you care about, and move confidently in any social setting.

21x13cm

200 pages

$30.00

Dance of Anger

A Woman's guide to changing the patterns of intimate relationships

Harriet Lerner

In Dance of Anger, Lerner shows women how to turn anger into a constructive force for reshaping their lives. She illuminates the causes and patterns of anger while providing specific strategies for making meaningful and lasting changes in important relationships. Basing her conclusions on her clinical work and drawing on psychoanalytic and family systems theory, she illustrate how, and why, our anger (be it vented through fighting and blaming or silence and emotional distancing) often protects rather than challenges existing relationship dynamics. And she explains the difficulties women have not only in getting angry but also in using their anger to gain a stronger and more independent sense of self.

14x21cm

239 pages

$28.00

Dance of Connection

How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate

Harriet Lerner

With remarkable clarity, a renowned psychologist shows both men and women how to talk to someone when they are angry, hurt, frustrated, insulted, betrayed, or even desperate. Guiding readers to take specific steps to heal broken relationship connections, Lerner shows how to navigate relationships with integrity, courage, and conviction.

22x15cm

272 pages

$28.00

Dance of Fear

Rising Above the Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self

Harriet Lerner

Using her wonderfully rich and inviting therapeutic voice along with personalmemories and examples drawn from her practice, Lerner gives anxiety, fear andshame their due.

20x14cm

238 pages

$26.95

Dance of Intimacy

A Woman's guide to courageous acts of change in key relationships

Harriet Lerner

Dr. Harriet Lerner outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged -- too much distance, too much intensity or too much pain -- she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness with others. Combining clear advice with vivid case examples, Dr. Lerner offers us the most solid, helpful book on intimate relationships that both women and men may ever encounter

21x14cm

255 pages

$28.00

Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style

Sharing Desire, Pleasure, and Satisfaction

Barry McCarthy, Emily McCarthy

The challenge for serious couples, whether married or unmarried, is to build mature couple sexuality. Romantic love and passionate sex provide the impetus to become involved in a serious relationship' however, it is developing an intimate, erotic couple sexual style that is the special challenge.
This book is about helping couples enhance intimacy and sexual satisfaction. The McCarthys provide relevant sexual information, exercises, and practical tools to help couples change attitudes and experience. They focus on positive, realistic sexual expectations, the dimensions of touch, and clear verbal and nonverbal communication between partners which facilitates genuine sexual satisfaction and connection.

22x15cm

135 pages

$32.95

Dynamics of Romantic Love

Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex

Mario Mikulincer

This volume provides clear evidence of how far research in adult attachment has progressed in the last 20 years. The authors reveal great depth in theorizing, creativity in the application of methodologies, and a focus on a broader range of variables than ever before. Essential reading for all serious students of adult attachment."--Pat Noller, PhD, School of Psychology (Emeritus), University of Queensland, Australia "Attachment theory is changing the world of social and clinical psychology, and this volume--with its rich general understanding and its ability to offer specific insights into the territory of relationships--is a fine example of the ever-expanding horizons of attachment theory and research. The book builds on the work of Phillip Shaver, who has led the field for two decades and who offers a transforming vision of adult attachment. The reader will find conceptual clarity, descriptions of fascinating research, and clinical wisdom on every page."--Susan M. Johnson, EdD, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada "This outstanding volume updates and expands the groundbreaking research methodology and conceptual framework that has allowed psychologists to examine adult romantic relationships as attachments. It wasn't too long ago that this was viewed as a radical notion! With a solid understanding of attachment theory's roots in the fields of biology and evolution, the contributing authors make a significant advance by underscoring the ways in which attachment components of romantic relationships are interwoven with caregiving and sexuality. This volume offers key insights to researchers and clinicians interested in fully understanding the complexities of that'crazy little thing called love.'"--Jude Cassidy, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park

26x17cm

455 pages

$75.00

Emotional Intelligence in Couples Therapy

Advances from Neurobiology and the Science of Intimate Relationships

Brent J Atkinson

Recent brain findings point to new understandings about human motivation and interaction. Here the author applies these insights to couple therapy, showing how recent brain studies can help couples increase their chances of success in therapy. Presenting strategies that will lead to success, this book helps couples move from internal states that block change to states that are compatible with change.

24x17cm

374 pages

$51.95

Enough about You, Let's Talk about Me

How to Recognize and Manage the Narcissists in Your Life

Les Carter

Those who are in the unenviable position of living or working with a narcissist have learned by sad trial and error that they are the only one in the relationship who can change the dynamic. Certainly narcissists don't think they need to change. "Enough" "About You, Let's Talk About Me" is a hands-on resource for helping colleagues, families, and spouses deal with people who exhibit narcissistic tendencies by learning how to change their own attitudes and responses.

22x15cm

193 pages

$28.00

Family Ties That Bind

A Self-Help Guide to Change Through Family of Origin Therapy

Ronald W Richardson

Most people's lives are complicated by family relationships. The "rules" we are brought up with can affect both our self-esteem and our relationsThis easy-to-read book explains what you can do to change the way you act within your family and with other important people. The step-by-step exercises show how to apply the principles to your own situation and develop a more positive approach to your life. hips.

23x15cm

136 pages

$22.95

Fighting for Your Marriage

Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love, Rev Ed

Markman, Stanley & Blumberg

In updating this classic book, the authors have used new research and clinical findings to focus on enhancing marriage and preventing divorce through better communication, problem solving, and sharing core belief systems.

22x16cm

374 pages

$28.95

Five Love Languages

How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

Gary Chapman

This book explores the all-important languages of love, helping each partner discover which actions are interpreted by the other one as loving and affirming, and which as indifferent and demeaning.

22x15cm

204 pages

$19.95

Getting It Right the First Time

Creating a healthy marriage

Barry McCarthy & Emily McCarthy

Clear, helpful guidelines for creating a healthy marriage and reveals the strategies, skills, and attitudes that can help prevent disappointment, resentment, and alienation from entering the relationship.

21x14cm

220 pages

$40.00

Getting It Right This Time

How to Create a Loving and Lasting Marriage

Barry McCarthy and Emily J McCarthy

This is the inevitable sequel to Getting It Right the First Time. In Getting It Right This Time, we pick up when the lessons offered in the first book didn't quite hit home, and the romance, myth, and wonder of passionate sex didn't develop into a solid foundation for marriage. What went wrong, what can we learn from the mistakes of a first marriage, and how can we move on to start over? In the authors' own words, "there are two crucial learnings from a divorce. The first is to identify vulnerabilities and traps, so they do not control your life and the potential of a subsequent marriage. The second is the commitment to create a second marriage and family which is satisfying and stable." Getting It Right This Time contains information, guidelines, case studies, and exercises, useable individually or as a couple. Chapters are self-contained, stand-alone units focused on topics such as: - Intimacy and sexuality - Step-parenting - Dealing with the ex-spouse - Marrying after 50 - Financial issues - Having a child in a second marriage.

21x15cm

208 pages

$36.00

Getting Past the Affair

A Program to Help You Cope, Heal, and Move on -- Together or Apart

Douglas Snyder

In the aftermath of infidelity, couples often struggle with emotional turmoil and sometimes make decisions they later regret. This resource helps them overcome the initial shock, understand what happened and why, and think clearly about their best interests before they act.

22x15cm

342 pages

$29.95

Getting the Love You Want Workbook

The New Couples' Study Guide

Harville Hendrix & Helen Hunt

This is the companion workbook to the "New York Times" bestselling relationship classic, "Getting the Love You Want."

23x19cm

288 pages

$32.95

Handbook of Couples Therapy

Michele M Harway, ed

The author brings together other well-known experts in marriage and family therapy to offer the Handbook of Couples Therapy, a comprehensive guide to the study and practice of couples therapy.
Recognizing the need for clinically proven, evidence-based approaches, chapters provide detailed coverage of the most effective treatment modes. Couples at different stages of the lifecycle feature prominently in the text, as do relevant special issues and treatment approaches for each stage.
Subjects covered include: Premarital counseling from the PAIRS perspective (an extensive curriculum of interventions for premarital couples) The first years of marital commitment, Couples with young children, Couples with adolescents, Therapy with older couples,and Same sex couples.
A variety of theoretical approaches, including Cognitive-Behavioral, Object Relational, Narrative, Integrative, and Feminist and Contextual Special issues and situations, including serious illness, physical aggression, addiction, infidelity, and religious/spiritual commitments or conflicts.

26x19cm

486 pages

$150.00

Healing Journey for Couples

Your Journal of Mutual Discovery

Rich & Copans

Embark on a fascinating journey of mutual discovery... This unique journal is designed to give you and your life partner powerful help in chronicling your history together, exploring the diverse facets of your individual personalities, examining the dynamics of your relationship, and establishing your hopes and plans for the future. The forty-five evocative exercises in The Healing Journey for Couples will help both of you gain new insights, improve your communication, and deepen your relationship. You'll find The Healing Journey for Couples a valuable travel companion on your path to personal growth. Acclaim for The Healing Journey for Couples ... "A creative guidebook for couples seeking a deeper understanding of their relationships." --John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

23x19cm

271 pages

$35.95

Healing Together

A Couple's Guide to Coping with Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress

Suzanne Phillips

The fear, distrust, and alienation that trauma survivors often feel has an obvious affect on any close relationship, but especially the relationship to their partner or spouse. Insomnia, nightmares, changes in drinking or drug use, anxiety, depression, changes in communication, loss of interest in sex, and an increase in hostility and anger can all combine to make the partner of the trauma survivor feel pushed away, attacked, or confused. If both partners experienced the trauma, it can be difficult for the partners to support each other in healing when they are struggling with their own loss or grief. This book is targeted to the couple where either one or both of the partners have experienced recent trauma, and encourages couples to see their relationship as one of the strongest resources at their disposal in healing from the trauma. Research shows that the most common forms of trauma are witnessing someone being badly injured or killed, being involved in a fire, flood, or natural disaster, being involved in a life-threatening accident, and combat exposure. Other traumas may include serious health problems, the death or injury of a loved one, or being the victim of a crime. The authors published a guide for couples within the New York City Fire Department, designed to help the firefighters and their partners cope with theaftermath of 9/11, especially as the trauma affected their intimate relationships. This book uses the same information in a format designed for "civilian" couples that have experienced any sort of trauma. Healing Together will offer practical, step-by-step tools, and cover the following topics: Establishing a safe and compassionate space to heal Communicating about needs Coping with loss and grief Recapturing lost intimacy Fighting, disagreements, and anger Coping with trauma memories/PTSD Rebuilding trust and teamwork Building resilience as a couple

22x15cm

187 pages

$34.00

Helping Couples Get Past the Affair

A Clinician's Guide

Donald Baucom

From leading marital therapists and researchers, this unique book presents a three-stage therapy approach for clinicians working with couples struggling in the aftermath of infidelity. The book provides empirically grounded strategies for helping clients overcome the initial shock, understand what happened and why, think clearly about their best interests before they act, and move on emotionally, whether or not they ultimately reconcile. The volume is loaded with vivid clinical examples and carefully designed exercises for use both during sessions and at home. The authors also describe ways to use their related self-help book, "Getting Past the Affair," as an adjunctive resource for clients

23x15cm

351 pages

$58.95

Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling

A Guide to Brief Therapy (Expanded)

Everette Worthington

Everett L. Worthington Jr. offers a comprehensive manual for assisting couples over common rough spots and through serious problems in a manner that is compassionate, effective and brief.

22x15cm

311 pages

$45.00

How Can I Forgive You

The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To

Janis Abrahms Spring

This bold and healing book offers step-by-step, concrete instructions that help us make peace with others and with ourselves, while answering such crucial questions as
How do I forgive someone who is unremorseful or dead? What is wrong with refusing to forgive?
How can the offender earn forgiveness?,br> How do we forgive ourselves for hurting another human being?

22x13cm

254 pages

$28.00

Imago Relationship Therapy

Perspectives on Theory

Haville Hendrix

This groundbreaking book offers an overview of the highly successful Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and the relationship of IRT with preceding schools of thought such as psychoanalytic theory, family systems theories, affect theory, and self-psychology. At the heart of IRT is a three-step process involving mirroring (reflecting) the partner's feelings, validating the partner's point of view, and expressing empathy toward the partner's feelings. Imago Relationship Therapy traces IRT's history and explosive growth and outlines the differences and similarities between Imago theory and other models of couples therapy. The book also presents some of the ideas of prominent Imago thinkers, such as the central role of connectivity and the problem of envy in committed relationships.

23x16cm

256 pages

$57.95

Love is Not For Cowards

How understanding your past can transform your relationship

Birgit Weber

Love is Not For Cowards is a book about daring to love. About daring to share our inner feelings and thoughts with our partner without worrying about their reactions. Unfortunately, many people believe that conflicts should be avoided at all costs, as they are the sign of an unhealthy relationship. Paradoxically this often leads to a breakdown instead of the development of a deeper relationship.
Leading Danish psychotherapist Birgit Weber believes the fear of revealing our true selves stems from our childhood. It is these fears that lie behind all the misunderstandings we may experience with our partner. In this highly accessible book, Birgit Weber shows how we can refine our reactions and feelings without expecting that our partner should accept these. It is only when we accept ourselves that we can become a whole person and thereby be a better partner. This book is at once confronting, insightful, reassuring and exhilarating.

22x14cm

184 pages

$24.95

Love, Sex and Long-Term Relationships

What People with Asperger Syndrome Really Really Want

Sarah Hendricks, Stephen Shore

What are the motivations and desires behind relationship choices and sexual behaviour? Are they very different for those with Asperger Syndrome (AS) than for anyone else? Does having extreme sensitivity to physical touch or an above average need for solitude change one's expectation of relationships or sexual experience? Many people on the autism spectrum have limited knowledge of how to establish or conduct sexual relationships: drawing on extensive research with people on the autism spectrum, the book openly explores such questions. For the first time people with AS discuss their desires, needs and preferences in their own words. AS attitudes to issues such as gender, sexual identity and infidelity are included, as well as positive advice for developing relationships and exploring options and choices for sexual pleasure. This accessible book is an invaluable source of information and support for those with Asperger Syndrome and couples in which one or both partners has Asperger Syndrome, as well as counsellors and health and social care professionals.

23x16cm

140 pages

$37.95

Marriage Clinic

John Gottman

Presents a complete marital therapy program based on John Gottman's much heralded research on marital success and failure. Contains a wide range of succinct and useful assessment procedures and a highly specific, research-based, and modularized treatment program. Includes dozens of questionnaires and interview protocols to be used in both assessment and intervention.

17x24cm

456 pages

$79.95

Mindful Couple

How acceptance and mindfulness can lead you to the love you want

Robyn D Walser

All of us want to be fully accepted in our relationships, yet it can be difficult to fully accept our partners for who they are. This insightful guide for couples is based on a simple concept: Act out of kindness, love, and acceptance, and you will open your relationship for the creation of greater kindness, love, and acceptance.
With strategies drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a powerful therapeutic approach, this book will help you identify your core values and discover,as a couple, the beauty that is available to you and your partner when you bring greater awareness and values-guided behavior to your relationship. Each chapter explores a key issue, such as passion, fidelity, and the balance between dependence and independence, and includes specific practices you can do alone or with your partner to help you build a vital relationship.

176 pages

$32.00

Money and Meaning

New Ways to Have Conversations about Money with Your Clients--A Guide for Therapists, Coaches, and Other Professionals

Judith Peck

The first book of its kind to introduce a model to help you create conversations about money with your clients, "Money and Meaning" provides a framework and tools to provide a safe environment in which to have conversations and resolve conflicts. Written by a respected expert in business, financial, and relational issues, "Money and Meaning" is filled with useful case studies and helps you open the door to thoughtful conversations that explore and resolve money's multiple meanings.

23x16cm

161 pages

$62.95

Multicultural Couple Therapy

Mudita Rastogi, Volker Thomas

Psychotherapists today work in multicultural settings with diverse clients, including couples from multiple ethnic groups. Most models of couple and family therapy were developed using a Eurocentric, middle class value system. Thus a majority of mental health professionals were trained to view the family life cycle, family transitions, developmental tasks, and functional relationships as defined by Euro-American middle class norms. However, as we have observed in the world around us, one size does not fit all. Contextually based values play an integral role in how we view relationships, roles, conflicts and their resolution.
This book provides an in-depth understanding to clinicians, students, educators and supervisors on how diverse clients define conflicts and what they consider to be functional solutions. Each chapter of this book explores the intersection of factors such as culture, gender, immigration, socio-economic status, religious beliefs, and sexual orientation. Readers have the opportunity to analyze case material, explore how prevailing theories and models might be adapted to work with these diverse clients, and understand how to integrate contextual factors in therapy. Each chapter also provides readers with additional resources and experiential exercises that will inform and enhance their mastery of couple therapy.

448 pages

$82.00

Narrative Therapy with Couples ...and a Whole Lot More

A collection of papers, essays and exercises

Jill Freedman and Gene Combs

In this thoughtful and practice-based collection, popular authors and teachers Jill Freedman and Gene Combs introduce the reader to the complexities and possibilities of narrative therapy with couples. Five separate papers offer thorough explorations of theory and practice. Detailed examples of therapeutic work with heterosexual couples are provided.

15x21cm

281 pages

$47.50

New Codependency

Help and Guidance for Today's Generation

Melody Beattie

This book is a follow up to Codependent No More, published 25 years ago. The New Codependency clears up misconceptions about codependency, identifies how codependent behavior has changed, and provides a new generation with a road map to wellness.
The question remains: What is and what is not codependency? We are reminded that much of codependency is normal behavior. It's about crossing lines. There are times we do too much, care too much, feel too little, or overly engage. Feeling resentment after giving is not the same as heartfelt generosity. Narcissism and self-love, enabling and nurturing, and controlling and setting boundaries are not interchangeable terms. Beattie explores these differences, effectively invoking her own inspiring story and those of others, to empower us to step out of the victim role forever. Codependency, she shows, is not an illness but rather a series of behaviors that once broken down and analyzed can be successfully combated.

21x14cm

270 pages

$46.00

Not "Just Friends"

Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

Shirley Glass

Reveals that the disclosure of infidelity is a traumatic event that can reverberate for months--even years. Dr Glass's trauma recovery approach helps couples cope with the obsessions, volatile emotions, flashbacks, and other post-traumatic reactions of betrayed partners.

22x14cm

448 pages

$27.00

Not to People Like Us

Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages

Susan Weitzman

A startling expose of domestic violence against well-educated, well-to-do women, and a powerful indictment of the social service system that fails to protect them.

24x16cm

289 pages

$28.00

Passionate Marriage

Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

David M Schnarch

This daring and pioneering work challenges couples to work together on the sexual and emotional blocks that hold them back from total satisfaction with each other. It is a respectful, erotic, uplifting, and spiritual guide to making love and intimacy a reality for every couple.

23x15cm

430 pages

$39.95

Perfectly Funny Marriage

A Humorous View of Creating a Successful Marriage

Susanne Alexander

Take a fresh look at how to create a successful marriage with relationship and marriage coach Susanne M. Alexander and several insightful cartoonists. Bring fun and laughter to your marriage preparation process or to your marriage through reading and sharing this light-hearted perspective.A Perfectly Funny Marriage will help you to explore the stages of self-discovery, friendship, relationship building, and marriage. It is ideal for singles to learn about relationships, married couples to lighten up their relationship, or groups to use for playful learning. Couples will enjoy this book as a great wedding or anniversary gift.'This delightful book shows how the path to a splendid marriage can be both meaningful and fun! Every couple, from their first date to their 50th wedding anniversary, should have itclose at hand.' -Scott Haltzman, MDAuthor of The Secrets of Happily Married Men and The Secrets of Happily Married Women

17x16cm

60 pages

$18.00

Really Relating

How to build an enduring relationship.

Jansen & Newman

Good relationships of all kinds are made - they don't just happen. This book shows you how to really look at yoursef and your relationship, how to create lasting intimacy and how to make a good relationship the first or second time around.

15x23cm

229 pages

$24.95

Rebuilding 3rd ed

When Your Relationship Ends

Bruce Fisher & Robert Alberti

The classic in this area. Fisher's "divorce process rebuilding blocks" offer a proven, supportive nineteen-step process for putting one's life back together after divorce. Built on more than two decades of research and practice, Rebuilding reflects feedback from, and the experiences of hundreds of thousands of divorced men and women who have read and used Rebuilding--many of them on their own, others in one of thousands of groups the book has spawned in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and elsewhere. Clearly the most widely used approach to divorce recovery, Fisher's Rebuilding model has made the divorce process less traumatic, even healthier, for his readers. His Fisher Divorce Adjustment Scale is recognized worldwide as a measure of adjustment to the end of a love relationship.
The new 3rd edition, revised and updated with the assistance of psychologist and marriage and family therapist Dr. Robert Alberti, continues Bruce's tradition of straight-to-the-heart response to the needs of those who are divorcing or divorced.

23x16cm

290 pages

$31.95

Rebuilding Workbook

When Your Relationship Ends

Fisher

Bruce Fisher's "Rebuilding" books and workshops have influenced hundreds of thousands of divorced persons worldwide. Now his step-by-step seminar workbook is available to the general market. Built around ten carefully designed "lesson plans, " the workbook offers a self-help or group work plan for systematic progress through the most important steps in divorce recovery. Each lesson plan includes behavioral objectives, a meeting agenda (with suggested group exercises), and "homework" for the next week's seminar. Self-help readers will enjoy the supplementary readings, specific exercises that may be completed alone, affirmation suggestions, and other features of the "workbook" format. Divorce recovery groups find the Workbook an invaluable week-by-week guide as they share their experiences and work together to recover from the divorce crisis. The Workbook is widely used by therapists and other growth facilitators as a systematic plan for their seminars on divorce.

28x21cm

128 pages

$33.95

Reconcilable Differences

Andrew Christensen , Neil Jacobson

Every couple has arguments, but what happens when recurring battles begin to feel like full-scale war? Do you retreat in hurt and angry silence, hoping that a spouse who "just doesn't get it" will eventually see things your way? Spend the time between skirmishes gathering evidence that you're right? Demand some immediate changes -- or else? Whether due to innate personality traits or emotional vulnerabilities, there are some aspects of our behavior that are difficult to alter. But these differences do not have to get in the way of healthy, happy, and long-lasting romance. This practical guide offers new solutions for couples frustrated by continual attempts to make each other change. Aided by thought- provoking exercises and lots of real-life examples, readers will learn why they keep having the same fights again and again; how to keep small incompatibilities from causing big problems; and how true acceptance can restore health to their relationships.

22x15cm

332 pages

$32.95

Rekindling Desire

A Step-By-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages

Barry McCarthy, emily McCarthy

With sensitivity and tact, the McCarthys offer a 10-step program that features concrete techniques and effective strategies designed to help couples increase sexual awareness, confront inhibitions, revitalize desire, and integrate intimacy and eroticism.

21x16cm

216 pages

$38.00

Relationship Cure

A 5 Step guide to strengthening your marriage, family, and friendships.

John Gottman

Gottman decodes the subtle secrets contained in our moment-to-moment communications. By introducting the simple yet amazingly powerful concept of the "bid", he provides a remarkable set of tools for relationship repair, with spouses and lovers, children and other family members, friends, and even work colleagues.

13x20cm

319 pages

$26.00

Secrets of Happily Married Men

Eight Ways to Win Your Wife's Heart Forever

Scott Haltzman, Therese DiGeronimo

Shows a different way of looking at how to build a successful long-lasting relationship from a man's point of view, men who are happy in their partnerships, who have figured out what works for them in accomplishing the goal of a loving, intimate, lifetime commitment.
Includes
The First Way: Make Your Marriage Your Job,
The Second Way: Know Your Wife,
The Third Way: Be Home Now,
The Fourth Way: Expect Conflict and Deal With It,
The Fifth Way: Learn to Listen,
The Sixth Way: Aim to Please,
The Seventh Way: Understand the Truth About Sex,
The Eighth Way: Introduce Yourself, and finally, Celebrate Your Love.
Within each of these steps, the authors provide both specific analysis, guidelines and techniques based on male biology, neuro-science, brain differences, unique developmental stages from youth to seniority.

22x16cm

275 pages

$24.95

Secrets of Happily Married Women

How to Get More Out of Your Relationship by Doing Less

Scott Haltzman, Theresa DiGeronimo

Tells us stories from real women who are happy in their relationships. These women know how to get more out of their partners by doing less, by not trying so hard to make men perfect, not dragging them to couples therapy, not expecting them to think or behave like a woman. They have learned to understand how men really work and tap into men's powerful hard-wired desire to please women and "be a better man."

22x16cm

215 pages

$24.95

Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

John M Gottman

Presents the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Packed with practical questionnaires and exercises this book is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.
Having researched marriage to the point where he can 'predict divorce' Gottman sets out the seven attributes that he considers will help marriages to thrive.

13x20cm

271 pages

$24.00

Sexual Awareness

Couple Sexuality for the Twenty-First Century

Barry McCarthy, Emily McCarthy

A new edition of the classic guide is revised and updated for contemporary readers. The McCarthy's create a confidence-building book that shows couples how to enhance their pleasure.

20x14cm

256 pages

$26.00

Surviving Infidelity

Making Decisions, Recovering from the Pain

Rona B Subotnik & Gloria G Harris

The betrayal, rage, sadness, and jealousy is unlike anything you've experienced before. And yet it is possible to move forward, decide what to do in your marriage, and most important, heal.
The 3rd ed of this book gives strategies to help understand the different kinds of affairs and why they happen (including Internet and emotional affairs) cope with your emotions, from grief to rage, repair the marriage if you choose to, and learn what it takes to be a survivor.

22x14cm

240 pages

$24.00

Take Back Your Marriage

Sticking Together in a World That Pulls Us Apart

William J Doherty

This book helps couples pinpoint hidden marital problems and take positive steps to stay close and connected every day. Learn to break free of such common traps as confusing desires with needs, applyng a trade-in-the-old-model consumer mentality to your own spouse, or by becoming overtime parents instead of full-time partners. There are suggestions for creating relationship rituals that stand the test of time; from mundane to celebratory, sexy to silly.

24x15cm

184 pages

$27.95

Towards Parenthood

Preparing for the Changes and Challenges of a New Baby

Jeannette Milgrom and others

This guidebook aims to assist parents manage the complex demands of parenting. An additional aim is to strengthen the couple relationship and the relationship between parents and infants. Skills in coping, problem-solving, enhancing self-esteem, assertive communication, bonding with your baby and understanding your baby's cues are presented.
The program has been extensively piloted with Australian families. Focus groups have been conducted and the program has been revised to incorporate their feedback. Overall, parents who were involved in the program told us they both enjoyed and gained from it.
Prof. Jeannette Milgrom, Jennifer Ericksen, Dr Brownyn Leigh, Yolanda Romeo, Elizabeth Loughlin, Bella Saunders and Rachael McCarthy are current and past members of the Parent–Infant Research Institute (PIRI) team at Austin Health, Victoria.

30x22cm

144 pages

$34.95

Tricky People

How to deal with horrible types before they ruin your life

Andrew Fuller

Profiles the whole scary range of ‘difficult’ types: back-stabbers, white-anters, blamers, whingers, bullies, tyrants, controllers, charmers, know-it-alls, perfectionists, competitors and the seriously self-obsessed. It offers imaginative yet practical ways to deal with these dangerous and frustrating creatures and identify the slippery techniques they employ to get their way. Buried cleverly within all the humour is an in-depth look at how difficult people manage us for their own ends – and how to overturn that. It helps us understand relationship patterns, office politics, our own shortcomings in our dealings with others, and what a difficult person might be able to teach us.

22x14cm

280 pages

$26.95

Truth About Love

The Highs, the Lows, and How You Can Make It Last Forever

Patricia Love

Describes the natural stages of love, refuting various romantic notions that can undermine a relationship. Offers realistic insights designed to strenghten the bonds of love, and presents suggestions on how to transform a relationship.

$25.00

What Happy Couples Do

Carol J Bruess and Anna D H Kudak

In this charming gift book, more than 50 couples share their clever, touching, and sometimes silly rituals of romance. The authors then explain how these loving gestures, private nicknames, and other forms of endearment help create the enduring bond between two life partners.

19x19cm

112 pages

$26.95

What Happy Parents Do

Ninety-Three Cents and a Little "Humpty Dumpty" - The Loving Rituals of a Child-Proof Marriage

Carol J Bruess and Anna D H Kudak

In this charming book, more than 50 couples show how they kept the romance and passion in their marriages following the birth of their children. The authors then explain how these couples' playful rituals help form enduring bonds between two life partners. With its full-color interior, playful typography and decorative marker ribbon, this book makes the perfect baby shower gift for new parents.

19x19cm

116 pages

$26.95

Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love

Unravelling the Simple Truth

Allan & Barbara Pease

Sex is like air: itŒs not important unless you arenŒt getting any. And the international bestselling authors Allan & Barbara Pease focus their insight and wit on this, the most important, yet often most frustrating and confusing part of any loving relationship. With cutting edge research and groundbreaking analysis, Allan and Barbara reveal why men want sex and women want love.

In this practical, humorous and easy-to-read guide Allan and Barbara help the reader discover the truth about their partner - or future partners. And most importantly, they translate the science into a highly entertaining read then teach you what you can do about it! This is a must-have book for anyone who wants to get the most from their relationship. It provides the answers both men and women are desperate to learn.

23x15cm

$29.95

Why Women Talk and Men Walk

How to Improve Your Relationship Without Discussing It

Patricia Love and Steve Stosney

You know how it can get when a relationship turns sour. Women want to talk things through. Men want to walk away and ignore the problem. It's an uncomfortable scenario that we've all witnessed or experienced, and one that we'd like to avoid. By explaining that it is the fundamental differences between men and women that can make relationships so hard, the authors reveal that the key to a great relationship is not communication but rediscovering and maintaining the connection a couple felt when they first met. Their groundbreaking techniques show how to engage with a partner and reignite the feelings that made that partnership so special to begin with.

22x15cm

240 pages

$32.95


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