Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage by John Gottman

Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage by John Gottman

In Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, marital psychologists John and Julie Gottman provide vital tools--scientifically based and empirically verified--that you can use to regain affection and romance lost through years of ineffective communication.

In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict--with more than 90 percent accuracy--whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, to develop intervention methods. Now the Gottmans, together with the Love Lab research facility, have put these ideas into practice.

What emerged from the Gottmans' collaboration and decades of research is a body of advice that's based on two surprisingly simple truths: Happily married couples behave like good friends, and they handle their conflicts in gentle, positive ways. The authors offer an intimate look at ten couples who have learned to work through potentially destructive problems--extramarital affairs, workaholism, parenthood adjustments, serious illnesses, lack of intimacy--and examine what they've done to improve communication and get their marriages back on track.

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, Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage is essential reading.

The Gottman Institute's Co-Founder and President is Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D. She is a well regarded clinical psychologist who is sought as an expert advisor on marriage, domestic violence, gay and lesbian adoption, same-sex marriage, and parenting difficulties by the media and organizations around the world. She is the co-creator of the wildly acclaimed The Art and Science of Love weekend workshop for couples, as well as the co-designer of the Gottman Method Couples Therapy national clinical training program. She is the editor of The Marriage Clinic Casebook and co-author with John Gottman of 10 Principles for Conducting Successful Couples Therapy and The Science of Couples and Family Therapy.

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ISBN 13	9781400050192
ISBN 10	1400050197
Title	Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage
Author	John Gottman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Three Rivers Press
Year published	2007-06-26
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Commended for Books for a Better Life (Relationships) 2006
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