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Getting the Love You Want

by Harville Hendrix

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ISBN13: 9780060972929
ISBN10: 0060972920
Condition: Standard
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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.

Review:

"Hendrix provides much insight into how spouses can mature through one another." Booklist

Review:

"This book will help any couple find the love they want hidden under all the concealing confusion of a close and intimate relationship. I have seen these principles in application and they work!" James A. Hall, M.D.

Review:

"Harville Hendrix offers the best program I've seen for using the love/hate energy in marriage to help a couple heal one another and to become whole together." T. George Harris, Editor-in-Chief, American Health magazine

Review:

"Getting the Love You Want is a remarkable book — the most incisive and persuasive I have ever read on the knotty problems of marriage relationships." Ann Roberts, former president, Rockefeller Family Fund

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296).
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About the Author

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., has more than 20 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 Institute for Relationship Therapy, based in Dallas and New York City.
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anonymous, February 24, 2009 (view all comments by anonymous)
Worth a Good Look

I looked at this book from a different perspective than most readers. I didn't read it as a person in need of relationship advice. Rather, I read it as a person who has been happily married for 22 years. My question was, how closely did the advice in this book match what I was doing successfully?

A bestseller since 1988, the book is separated into 3 sections:

-the first part talks about how unmet childhood needs can affect your future relationships.

-the second part talks about a marriage that can fulfil your unmet childhood needs in constructive ways.

-lastly, part three is the exercises. Here you'll be taken through a series of exercises that you can do at home that have been actually used in the author's practice. They're easy to do and involve writing.

Well, that's a rough synopsis that should give you a little bit of a feel as to how the book is set up- and what its about.

So how closely did the advice in this book match what I have been doing all this time to create a successful 22-year marriage? Perfectly- both the book and I promote the idea that you have to work at your marriage to make it work!

And perhaps that's the best piece of advice of all: find constructive ways to make you marriage better- and that's one thing this book most certainly succeeds at. Other self-help books I liked include "Finding Happiness in a Frustrating World".

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060972929
Subtitle:
Guide for Couples, A
Author:
Hendrix, Harville
Publisher:
Perennial
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Interpersonal Relations
Subject:
Marriage
Subject:
Love
Subject:
Love & Romance
Subject:
General Psychology & Psychiatry
Copyright:
1988
Edition Description:
1st Perennial Library ed.
Series Volume:
NP-4208
Publication Date:
1990
Binding:
Trade Paper
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.02x5.31x.91 in. .52 lbs.
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