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Understanding Relationships


If you have a female partner...


Why Do Intimate Relationships Succeed or Fail?

Habits of People Who Know How to Get their Partners to Treat them Well:  Part I - Dealing With Differences

Core Differences in Ways of Maintaining Emotional Stability - Legitimately Different Ways of Navigating Life

Reacting Effectively When Your Partner Says or Does Things That You Don't Like or Agree With

But My Partner is So Extreme!

The Bottom Line

When Your Partner's Thinking or Actions Seem Wrong

Is Your Partner Really More to Blame?


If you have a male partner...


Why Do Intimate Relationships Succeed or Fail? 

Habits of People Who Know How to Get their Partners to Treat them Well:  Part I - Dealing With Differences

Core Differences in Ways of Maintaining Emotional Stability - Legitimately Different Ways of Navigating Life 

Reacting Effectively When Your Partner Says or Does Things That You Don't Like or Agree With

But My Partner is So Extreme!


The Bottom Line

When Your Partner's Thinking or Actions Seem Wrong

Is Your Partner Really More to Blame?


Magazine Articles


The Love Breakthrough
— From The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine
Altered States: Why Insight Isn't Enough for Lasting Change — From the Psychotherapy Networker
Brain to Brain: New Ways to Help Couples to Avoid Relapse — From the Psychotherapy Networker
The Emotional Imperative: Psychotherapists Cannot Afford to Ignore the Primacy of the Limbic Brain — From the Psychotherapy Networker

Supplementing Couples Therapy with Methods for Reconditioning Emotional Habits -- From the Family Therapy Magazine.


Articles in Professional Books and Journals


Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy for Couples -- from the Journal of Systemic Therapies

Rewiring Neural States in Couples Therapy: Advances from Affective Neuroscience -- from the Journal of Systemic Therapies

Rewiring Emotional Habits:  The Pragmatic/Experiential Method -- from the Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy

Supplementing Couples Therapy with Methods for Reconditioning Emotional Habits - The Family Therapy Magazine - 2011