Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Second Edition

Hendrix Ph.D., Harville

ISBN 10: 1427202400 ISBN 13: 9781427202406

Publisher: Macmillan Audio, 2007

Synopsis

In Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Harville Hendrix presents the relationship skills that have already helped hundreds of thousands of couples to replace confrontation and criticism with a healing process of mutual growth and support. This extraordinarily practical guide describes the revolutionary technique of Imago Relationship Therapy, which combines a number of disciplines―including the behavioral sciences, depth psychology, cognitive therapy, and Gestalt therapy, among others―to create a program to resolve conflict and renew communication and passion.

In a new chapter and afterword, we learn the key ways in which Imago Therapy―now practiced by more than two thousand therapists worldwide―can be used to help couples eliminate all negativity from their daily interactions. This fundamental change has proven invaluable in couples' therapy, and the importance of eliminating negativity has been integrated throughout the text, allowing listeners of the 2008 edition to benefit from Dr. Hendrix's ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work.

About this title

About the Author:

HARVILLE HENDRIX, PH.D., has more than 30 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 IMAGO Institute for Relationship Therapy. He lives in New Jersey and New Mexico.

Jack Garrett has narrated a number of audiobooks including Mary Jo Putney's The Burning Point, Ed Gorman's Shoot First, and Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning, which won an AudioFile magazine Earphones Award. Garrett also read Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition about which AudioFile magazine said, "Jack Garrett's vocal quality and nuanced dramatic skills are perfect for the emotional narrative as well as its prescriptive aspects. His genuine interpretation is steady enough to provide continuity and varied enough to keep listeners engaged throughout."

From AudioFile:

A revision of a twenty-year-old classic offers insights on love attachments and powerful exercises for couples. The author's approach to couples therapy says that when people work through their childhood disappointments, they can connect with their partners more happily and securely. Building on a rich foundation of ideas about the emotional and cultural contexts of good partnerships, the author teaches communication skills that promote emotional safety, fix common dysfunctions, and allow people to become more giving with each other. Jack Garrett's vocal quality and nuanced dramatic skills are perfect for the emotional narrative as well as its prescriptive aspects. His genuine interpretation is steady enough to provide continuity and varied enough to keep listeners engaged throughout. T.W. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1427202400
• ISBN 13: 9781427202406
• Binding: Audio CD