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Couples on Coupling

Author : Barbara Jo Brothers
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560240495
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Couples on Coupling written by Barbara Jo Brothers and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perceptive new book looks at couples therapy from a unique point of view--that of couples who are themselves actively involved in therapy with couples. The authors are all engaged in both the process of their own coupling and of helping others move towards effective coupling, providing this volume with a balance and insight not found in many other works on the same subject. With couples working in therapy as teams, problems such as gender bias can be greatly reduced--the male and female points of view are represented by both patients and therapists. Chapters include the works of seven different couples, including well-known therapists Stephen and Carol Lankton, and emphasize stages in the process of intimacy and healthy coupling. Also included are important chapters on the use of Eriksonian therapy with couples, couples therapy in Jungian terms, and the awareness that the therapists themselves are as much a part of the therapy process as the clients. An exciting and innovative book, Couples on Coupling will be valuable to both beginning and more experienced mental health professionals who work with couples. Social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, pastoral counselors, and marriage and family counselors can all increase their effectiveness by reading this remarkable volume.

Stepcoupling

Author : Susan Wisdom
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307421686
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Stepcoupling written by Susan Wisdom and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love may be sweeter the second time around, but once the bliss of a newfound relationship wears off a little, the reality of being part of a stepfamily sets in. If you are one of the millions of remarried Americans facing the challenge of blending two existing families into one cohesive whole, you are part of a stepcouple—and you know all too well how hard it can be to make your marriage work in sometimes tough terrain. Different parenting styles, finances, relationships with ex-spouses, legal matters, and even seemingly simple issues such as the kinds of chores assigned to children can chisel away at your union if you don’t always make your marriage a priority. Stepcoupling offers advice for stepcouples on how to do just that—all the while strengthening their blended family with a healthy marriage. Susan Wisdom and Jennifer Green provide tips and strategies on dealing with the issues remarried couples face, with a wealth of advice from real-life stepcouples, such as: * Learning to tailor your expectations of your spouse or children and remembering that no family is perfect * Knowing where your boundaries are, whether involving a hostile ex-spouse or a stepchild who demands too much attention * Realizing that traits like flexibility, tolerance, forgiveness, and openness are especially essential in a stepfamily situation * Making “us” time for talking, problem-solving, weekends away, and enjoying your marriage to constantly renew and strengthen your bond as a couple Let this invaluable remarriage manual help you make your stepcouple the foundation of a strong, happy, and successful stepfamily.

Couples on Coupling

Author : Barbara Jo Brothers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Couples on Coupling written by Barbara Jo Brothers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conscious Coupling

Author : Don Desroches
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940262758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Conscious Coupling written by Don Desroches and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscious Coupling, Saving Relationships from the perspectives of two divorce mediators wages war on saving relationships and ultimately saving families. Dana and Don, two divorce mediators and licenses couple's and family therapist offer insight from the mediator's/counselor's perspective directly from real cases they have both counseled before and after divorce and during separation negotiations. This book amplifies the "root cause analysis" within couples that without recognition or restoration, Dana and Don believe that any relationship will ultimately dissolve. Conscious coupling honestly addresses the true bases of relationship fulfillment as well as its ultimate demise. Each author writes separately his and her personal and professional experiences on each chapter. Such as, the future of relationship, money and sex values, infidelity, family of origin, extended family, social influences, as well as modern marriage, parenting, and the most common relational traits as compatibility, co-habitation and communications. This is not a psychoanalytical or legal text book, this is a true to life, based on real cases, that young couples who haven't married yet or couples who are already married need to be aware of if they intend on maintaining a happy and satisfying and blissful existence together. There is no other book out there, that divorce mediators have written, to save families.

Re-Coupling

Author : Mary Jo Rapini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628651829
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Re-Coupling written by Mary Jo Rapini and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about intimacy and sex in marriage is hardly unique. But a no-nonsense text written by a board-certified urologist and a licensed psychotherapist who work in tandem to treat and educate their patients is something new and special. Together, Rapini and Khera have provided medical treatment and emotional guidance to couples searching for greater intimacy, better sex, and happier marriages. They observe on a daily basis that if one partner has psychological or medical issues, both partners are affected, so they work with couples as they treat the problems of individuals. In this book they invite couples to consider together issues ranging from communication and intimacy to erectile dysfunction and loss of sexual desire

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm

Author : Sasha Roseneil
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787358895
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm written by Sasha Roseneil and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal. By investigating how the couple-norm is lived and experienced, how it has changed over time, and how it varies between places and social groups, this book provides a detailed analysis of changing intimate citizenship regimes in Europe, and makes a major intervention in understandings of the contemporary condition of personal life. The authors develop the feminist concept of ‘intimate citizenship’ and propose the new concept of ‘intimate citizenship regime’, offering a study of intimate citizenship regimes as normative systems that have been undergoing profound change in recent decades. Against the backdrop of processes of de-patriarchalization, liberalization, pluralization and homonormalization, the ongoing potency of the couple-norm becomes ever clearer.

Uncoupling Convention

Author : Ann D'Ercole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134894538
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Uncoupling Convention written by Ann D'Ercole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by drawing on two cultural movements of the twentieth century: psychoanalysis and the gay/lesbian civil rights movement. Taken together, these traditions provide a framework for understanding, and providing psychotherapeutic assistance to, gay and lesbian patients who present with troubled relationships. The contributors to this volume espouse a clinical focus that supplants the heterosexual perspectives of traditional psychoanalysis with new narratives about family life. Drawing on cultural, feminist, gay/lesbian, and queer studies, they illustrate how concepts of gender and sexuality are routinely informed by unproven heterosexist assumptions - both conscious and unconscious. By examining the changing developmental needs and family dynamics of gay and lesbian families, the contributors broaden our very understanding of what a family is. They illustrate how contrasting cultural constructions of homosexuality and family life play out in same-sex couples. They delineate the multiple realities of gender subjectivity, both in children and in their gay parents. They ponder how technology is shaping reproductive experiences, as lesbians become part of the biomedical system. And they explore recurrent themes of feeling different and ashamed, including the shameful secrecy surrounding same-sex couples' financial matters. In uncoupling conventions, the contributors are effectively coupling post-Freudian psychoanalysis with the insights of queer theory and the critical edge of contemporary cultural studies. The result is a framework for addressing the relational and family-related challenges of gay and lesbian patients that ranges far beyond traditional approaches and will benefit analytic, couples, and family therapists alike.

Literary Couplings

Author : Marjorie Stone
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299217648
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Literary Couplings written by Marjorie Stone and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the rich diversity of literary couplings and collaborations from the early modern to the postmodern period. Literary Couplings explores some of the best-known literary partnerships—from the Sidneys to Boswell and Johnson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes—and also includes lesser-known collaborators such as Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland. The essays place famous authors such as Samuel Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats in new contexts; reassess overlooked members of writing partnerships; and throw new light on texts that have been marginalized due to their collaborative nature. By integrating historical studies with authorship theory, Literary Couplings goes beyond static notions of the writing "couple" to explore literary couplings created by readers, critics, historians, and publishers as well as by writers themselves, thus expanding our understanding of authorship.

Cosmic Coupling

Author : Stella Starsky
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307459888
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Coupling written by Stella Starsky and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmic Coupling is a fun, fast-paced exploration of every possible relationship between star signs, both straight and gay, from the authors’ unique sextrological perspective. With rich knowledge, expert wordsmithing, and signature wry humor, celebrity cosmic consultants Stella Starsky + Quinn Cox delve into the specific rules of attraction inherent in each bond and the perks and pitfalls particular to each partnership. Whether addressing enduring alliances or fleeting dalliances, Starsky + Cox don’t shy away from the juicier bits in profiling the romantic and sexual nature of each star-sign combination on the astrological block. Smart, sexy, and sophisticated, with a wink, Cosmic Coupling profiles couples in a threefold manner: • Chemistry—describes the sparks, clashes, and underlying motivations of the couple’s mutual attraction • Compatibility—depicts the relationship needs of each sign and explains how the pair best meshes • Carnality—details the sexual dynamics of the bond, right on down to the nitty-gritty With a profound understanding of astrology and human psychology, original insights drawn from ancient, literary, and pop archetypes, and a frankly intelligent, frequently funny delivery, Cosmic Coupling illuminates the dynamics of one’s (and others’) existing relationships and guides any singles seeking Mr. and/or Ms. Right, while giving the phrase “starry-eyed lovers” a whole, spicy new meaning.

Coupling--

Author : Barbara Jo Brothers
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560241867
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Coupling-- written by Barbara Jo Brothers and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover pertinent information for assisting couples in achieving permanence in their relationships from the invaluable perspectives on love and love relationships found in Coupling . . . What Makes Permanence? This fascinating new volume features insightful reflections of prominent couples therapists on the subject of love and the components that make long-lasting couples relationships. Centered around a recognition of human beings'seemingly instinctual need for attachment, these perceptive chapters address a range of questions from "What is love?" to "How is love maintained?" Two main steps to permanence that will aid therapists are balancing adult needs with child needs in both partners and recognizing the pervasive, illusory factors that are the downfall of so many relationships. Profiles of couples who have stayed together for many years are examined and used as models for therapists to foster longevity in their clients'relationships. Important elements that contribute to permanence are advocated, such as the ability to give up illusions in the relationship, creating a web of trust to mitigate fears of loss, and achieving authentic and generative connection as opposed to the uneasy, frantic shifting for balance known as codependency. Practical advice on these and other fascinating topics make this an invaluable resource for therapists helping couples to attain the elusive goal of permanence in their relationships.

Splitopia

Author : Wendy Paris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476725535
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Splitopia written by Wendy Paris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with research, insights, and illuminating (and often funny) examples from Paris’s own divorce experience, this book is a “practical and reassuring guide to parting well.” —Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project Engaging and revolutionary, filled with wit, searing honesty, and intimate interviews, Splitopia is a call for a saner, more civil kind of divorce. As Paris reveals, divorce has improved dramatically in recent decades due to changes in laws and family structures, advances in psychology and child development, and a new understanding of the importance of the father. Positive psychology expert and author of Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar, writes that Paris’s “personal insights, stories, and research” create “a smart and interesting guide that can be extremely helpful for those going through divorce.” Reading this book can be the difference between an expensive, ugly battle and a decent divorce, between children sucked under by conflict or happy, healthy kids. This is “a compelling case that it’s high time for a new definition of Happily Ever After—for everyone” (Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time).

Couples

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645721
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Couples written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.”—Time One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal. Praise for Couples “Couples [is] John Updike’s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ingenious . . . If this is a dirty book, I don’t see how sex can be written about at all.”—Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times Book Review

Single

Author : Michael L. Cobb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814772552
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Single written by Michael L. Cobb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: "Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-parent: "; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";} What single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist outside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly discouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to the social. Singles might just be the single most reviled sexual minorities today. Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the couple form, and how that supremacy blocks our understanding of the single. Michael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness as it traverses an eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and popular culture objects from Plato, Freud, Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Morrissey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Hannah Arendt to the Bible, Sex and the City, Bridget Jones' Diary, Beyonce;'s "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," and HBO's Big Love. Within these flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, strange moments in film and video, paintings made in the desert, bits of song, and memoirs of hiking in national parks, Cobb offers an inspired, eloquent rumination on the single, which is guaranteed to spark conversation and consideration. "--

Coupling

Author : Barry Sukoneck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980563525
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Coupling written by Barry Sukoneck and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK MAKES YOU A PROMISE: If you and your partner can develop or improve the skills included herein--or even some of them--you will have a much happier and more satisfying relationship. Unlike other books about relationships that focus on theory and abstract psychological concepts, Coupling is a down-to-earth, practical handbook of coupling skills, a compendium of knowledge, which grows out of Dr. Barry Sukoneck's 45+ years of international experience as a mental health professional, helping couples of all kinds successfully navigate their most difficult and stressful problems. Think of Coupling as a "field guide" to the unfamiliar terrain of relationship problems, and a quick reference guide to the skills--from basic to advanced--that couples need to solve these problems. Written in clear, practical English that anyone can instantly understand, Coupling teaches skills through "dialogues" between couples and their therapists. HERE'S WHAT YOU GET: MANY PRACTICAL, EASY DIALOGUES--each attached to specific coupling skills--that you will use from day one to speak to your partner and improve your relationship; A "CATALOG OF SKILLS" to which you will refer for months and years to come A TRUSTWORTHY AUTHORITY in Dr. Barry Sukoneck, who has 45+ years experience helping all kinds of couples breakthrough into happier and more satisfying relationships; ENCOURAGEMENT to fight for your relationship, and never give up; A RESOURCES SECTION that you can use to find further information and valuable help; HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: LEARN HOW TO TALK--and listen--to your partner through practical dialogues that successful couples use; FIGURE OUT how to tackle MAJOR relationship problems like cheating, sex issues, and abuse; GET NEW INSIGHT on how to deal with a partner who does not like to talk about your issues; GRASP THE NEED to forgive and forget, and how important it is; HOW TO be determined and fight for your relationship; DEALING WITH PARTNERS who are tentative about intimacy and affection ...AND much more practical advice and guidance culled from Barry Sukoneck's decades of experience working with couples. In the end, you know that you must gain the skills you need to build a lasting, happy, and satisfying relationship. But you are not born with these skills. Nor is your partner. You must learn them, practice them, and work hard to master them. Interestingly, these are skills that most couples are aware of, but for various reasons fail to put them into action. Coupling will help you do just that.

The Couple and Family Technology Framework

Author : Katherine M. Hertlein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136175733
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Couple and Family Technology Framework written by Katherine M. Hertlein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couples and families worldwide have a constant electronic connection to others, a fact that is influencing the concerns and issues they bring to therapy. The authors of this resource help mental health practitioners to better deal with concerns such as online infidelity, online dating, internet addictions, cyber bulling, and many more by introducing the Couple and Family Technology (CFT) framework, a multi-theoretical approach that doesn’t require clinicians to change their preferred clinical approach. The CFT framework acknowledges the ways in which couples navigate their relationship with technology and a partner simultaneously, and it attends to, and in some cases incorporates the role of technology in therapeutic ways. Included in the authors’ discussion of how different technologies affect relationships is • a survey of what individuals’ motivations of usage are • an examination of the specific issues that emerge in treatment • a study of the risks particularly relevant to intimate relationships, and • an introduction of the first-ever technology-based genogram. They also examine technological usage across different developmental points in a couple’s lifespan, with attention given throughout to people from various cultural backgrounds. Along with the CFT framework, the authors also introduce a new discipline of family research: Couple and Family Technology. This discipline integrates three broad perspectives in family science and helps therapists maintain a systemic focus in assessing and treating couples where issues of the Internet and new media are problematic. Online resources can be accessed by purchasers of the book and include videos, additional case studies, glossary, and forms.

"C"

Author : Richard E. Schingoethe
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 144901044X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book "C" written by Richard E. Schingoethe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many times I thought I couldn't live with you. "And many times I know I can't live without you." Among a myriad of books about love and relationships, you will not find another quite like 'C'. A story "for Couples coming and going," 'C' brings wit and wisdom, anecdotes and observations from a writer who has truly lived it ... in ways that frequently mirror our own. With a lively, unique and refreshing blend of narrative, musical lyrics and quotable quotes, 'C' takes us on a journey through the phases of Coupling, from "Finding your 'C'-Mate," to "Un-Coupling" and even "Post-Couple Coupling." While being a couple is, in many ways, rather simple (put two people together and - ka-boom! - you have a couple), a multitude of factors can enhance, aggravate or even detour the relationship. 'C' draws on the author's life 'n times with "special colleagues" to give us a highly perceptive view of what happens at various stages in relationships, while offering actionable ideas that help make Coupling more fun. Sometimes funny, heartwarming or even heartbreaking, 'C' makes no pretenses about being more than its title implies. Whether you're a 20-something, a mid-lifer or older ... currently Coupling, Un-Coupling or at stages in-between ... 'C' can help smooth out "speed bumps" on the highway to forever, and make your Couple-times more meaningful, more enjoyable. Perhaps because, in many ways, 'C' is every reader's story, too.

Surpassing Threats and Rewards

Author : Barbara Jo Brothers
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560247234
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Surpassing Threats and Rewards written by Barbara Jo Brothers and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995-02-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the dynamics of discord, rejection, and blame in the coupling process. Surpassing Threats and Rewards provides practical information to help readers understand marital dissatisfaction and how this dissatisfaction manifests itself in relationships. The book includes a transcript from the work of master therapist Virginia Satir in which she discusses the advantage of using the growth model in work with families. Most individuals are raised in families that use the threat and reward model rather than the growth model, and then bring the threat and reward model to their marriages--which can result in discord, blame, and dissatisfaction. In Surpassing Threats and Rewards, the contributing authors discuss: the psychology of victimhood meditations for couples the Control Mastery perspective a framework for systemic therapy with individuals separation as a useful technique in marital therapy Several chapters contain insightful studies which explore: the relationship between childhood experiences and marital conflict marital satisfaction prior to couples therapy the relationship of self-disclosure and spouse description to problem severity and commitment to therapy Surpassing Threats and Rewards is a useful reference and guide to help beginning and expert social workers, counsellors, psychologists, and psychiatrists, especially those engaged in work with couples and families, better understand the processes of conflict in couples and how to resolve such conflict.