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The Relationship Cure
A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships
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One of the nation's top relationship experts outlines his revolutionary new five-step program for repairing damaged relationships between spouses, lovers, co-workers, and family members. By the author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
A groundbreaking, practical program for transforming troubled relationships into positive ones
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A groundbreaking, practical program for transforming troubled relationships into positive ones.
From the country's foremost relationship expert and New York Times bestselling author Dr. John M. Gottman comes a powerful, simple five-step program, based on twenty years of innovative research, for greatly improving all of the relationships in your life—with spouses and lovers, children, siblings, and even your colleagues at work.
Gottman provides the tools you need to make your relationships thrive. In The Relationship Cure, Dr. Gottman:
- Reveals the key elements of healthy relationships, emphasizing the importance of what he calls "emotional connection".
- Introduces the powerful new concept of the emotional "bid," the fundamental unit of emotional connection.
- Provides remarkably empowering tools for improving the way you bid for emotional connection and how you respond to others' bids.
- And more!
Packed with fascinating questionnaires and exercises developed in his therapy, The Relationship Cure offers a simple but profound program that will fundamentally transform the quality of all of the relationships in your life.
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The Relationship Cure by John Gottman and Joan DeClaire is highly praised for its insightful exploration of relationships. Reviews commend the book for its research-based approach, highlighting the concept of "emotional bids" as a key to understanding and improving relationship dynamics. It is described as both practical and profound, offering valuable tools for relationship repair and enhancing emotional connections.
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ISBN: 9780609809532
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 June 2002
Country: United States
Imprint: Crown Publications
Illustration: 7 LN DRAWINGS
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 244g
Pages: 336
About the Author
John M. Gottman, Ph.D., is the cofounder and co-director of the Gottman Institute, along with his wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman. He is also Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle and the recipient of numerous national and international awards for his groundbreaking relationship research. His work has been featured on many national television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, Dateline, and Good Morning America. His previous books include the national bestseller The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child.
John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman founded the Gottman Institute to provide educational materials, therapist and couples workshops, and therapy to couples and families.
Joan DeClaire is a freelance writer specializing in psychology, health, and family issues. She lives in Seattle.
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