Healing Journey for Couples

PHIL RICH, EdD, MSW, is an experienced psychotherapist who has practiced for over twenty years. He has taught at the graduate and undergraduate level, served as an instructor, and led professional workshops. He was born and raised in London, England, and now lives with his wife, daughter, and large dog in Amherst, Massachusetts. STUART A. COPANS, MD, is a child psychiatrist, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, and an attending physician at the Brattleboro Retreat. He is the author of books and book chapters on therapy, and is also a published cartoonist. He and his wife have lived in Brattleboro, Vermont, for the past twenty-one years, where he is on the board of the Museum and Art Center and is an elected town meeting representative.

• Partial table of contents: EXPLORING YOUR RELATIONSHIP. A Promise to Each Other. Guided Writing. A Family Affair. What Sort of Couple Are We? Mapping Your Relationship. RECORDING YOUR HISTORY. Remembering the Day... The Ten-Minute Biography. Places in Our Lives. Free-Form History. DISCOVERING ONE ANOTHER. Face-to-Face: Here's Looking at You. An Important Possession. An Unlikely Possession. Five Crucial Flaws. SHARING PERSPECTIVES. Shifting Perspectives. Blind Spots. Changing Your Partner. What's on Your Mind? COMMUNICATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING. Feedback. Expressing Yourself. What's Bothering You? Surviving Tension. Find Solutions. INTIMACY. Exploring Intimacy. Staying Alive: Rediscovering Intimacy. Senseless Acts of Intimacy. THE END AND BEGINNING OF YOUR COUPLES JOURNEY. Your Relationship Map and Beyond. Conclusion. Acknowledgments. About the Authors.