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REVISED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD
ARE YOU GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT?
Originally published in 1988, "Getting the Love You Want" has helped millions of couples attain more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. The 20th anniversary edition contains extensive revisions to this groundbreaking book, with a new chapter, new exercises, and a foreword detailing Dr. Hendrix's updated philosophy for eliminating all" "negativity from couples' daily interactions, allowing readers of the 2008 edition to benefit from his ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work.
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD., originated Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents. Together they 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. Harville and Helen have six children and live in New York and New Mexico. Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., has more than thirty years of experience as an educator, public lecturer, and therapist. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages and Imago Therapy is practiced in thirty countries. Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, are the co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy--a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents--which is practiced by two thousand therapists worldwide. They have six children and live in New Jersey and New Mexico.
Originally published in 1988, "Getting the Love You Want" has helped millions of couples attain more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. The 20th anniversary edition contains extensive revisions to this groundbreaking book, with a new chapter, new exercises, and a foreword detailing Dr. Hendrix's updated philosophy for eliminating all" "negativity from couples' daily interactions, allowing readers of the 2008 edition to benefit from his ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work.
"Getting the Love You Want "is also available on CD as an unabridged audiobook. Please email academic@macmillan.com for more information.
"Hendrix provides much insight into how spouses can mature through one another."--"Booklist
""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
""I know of no better guide for couples who genuinely desire a maturing relationship."--M. Scott Peck, author of "The Road Less Traveled"
""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
""Getting the Love You Want" provides a road map for partners seeking a path to intimacy and passionate friendship."--Marion Solomon, Ph.D.
"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.
"Hendrix provides much insight into how spouses can mature through one another."--"Booklist
""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
""I know of no better guide for couples who genuinely desire a maturing relationship."--M. Scott Peck, author of "The Road Less Traveled"
""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
""Getting the Love You Want" provides a road map for partners seeking a path to intimacy and passionate friendship."--Marion Solomon, Ph.D.
"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.
| In Appreciation of Jo Robinson | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Foreword to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition | p. xv |
| Preface to the 2001 Edition | p. xxxi |
| Introduction to the 1988 Edition | p. xli |
| The Unconscious Partnership | |
| The Mystery of Attraction | p. 3 |
| Childhood Wounds | p. 15 |
| Your Imago | p. 35 |
| Romantic Love | p. 47 |
| The Power Struggle | p. 64 |
| The Conscious Partnership | |
| Becoming Conscious | p. 85 |
| Commitment | p. 100 |
| Creating a Zone of Safety | p. 116 |
| Increasing Your Knowledge of Yourself and Your Partner | p. 131 |
| Defining Your Curriculum | p. 162 |
| Creating a Sacred Space | p. 183 |
| Portrait of Two Relationships | p. 209 |
| The Exercises | |
| Ten Steps Toward a Conscious Partnership | p. 233 |
| Your Relationship Vision | p. 258 |
| Childhood Wounds | p. 261 |
| Imago Workup | p. 262 |
| Childhood Frustrations | p. 263 |
| Parent-Child Dialogue | p. 264 |
| Partner Profile | p. 266 |
| Unfinished Business | p. 267 |
| The Imago Dialogue | p. 268 |
| The Commitment Decision | p. 272 |
| Reromanticizing | p. 274 |
| The Surprise List | p. 277 |
| The Fun List | p. 278 |
| Positive Flooding | p. 278 |
| The Behavior Change Request Dialogue | p. 280 |
| The Holding Exercise | p. 284 |
| Owning and Eliminating Your Negativity | p. 286 |
| Self-Integration | p. 289 |
| Visualization of Love | p. 291 |
| Seeking Professional Help | p. 293 |
| Notes | p. 297 |
| Bibliography | p. 311 |
| About Imago Relationship Therapy | p. 315 |
| Imago Contacts | p. 317 |
| Meetings with Harville | p. 319 |
| Index | p. 321 |
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ISBN: 9780805087000
ISBN-10: 0805087001
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 336
Published: 26th December 2007
Dimensions (cm): 20.3 x 13.2
x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.363
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