Keeping the love you find : a single person's guide to achieving lasting love / Harville Hendrix.
By: Hendrix, Harville
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BookPublisher: London : Pocket Books, 2005Description: xix, 325 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780743495936.Subject(s): Single people | Love | Interpersonal relationsDDC classification: 306.7 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 306.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00106793 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 306.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00106794 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Your dream of finding a partner is a natural and normal human instinct and your dream is perfectly achievable. Whatever your history, whatever your heartbreak, as a single person you are in an ideal position to learn what you need to know and what you can do to greatly improve your chances for finding, and keeping, love. With KEEPING THE LOVE YOU FIND, renowned relationship therapist and bestselling author Harville Hendrix will help you to: · IDENTIFY your Imago - the fantasy partner that your unconscious mind, which has a hidden agenda of its own, has chosen for you · BREAK FREE from those patterns in your parents' marriage that you have unknowingly accepted as your relationship model · CREATE hope in place of despair, companionship instead of loneliness · DEVELOP communication skills to turn conflict into contact - and togetherness · TRANSFORM every past relationship into a source of positive growth · DISCOVER the rewards of real love - and the little things that make it last ... and more. Filled with wisdom and compassion, KEEPING THE LOVE YOU FIND will help get your next relationship off to the best start and keep your love strong for a lifetime.
Originally published: New York: Pocket, 1992; London: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Bibliography: (pages 317-319) and index.
Part I: Being human, being single -- What's wrong with being single? -- What's really going on in your relationships? -- The human journey -- Part II: The imago puzzle I: Childhood nurturing -- Growing pains: uncovering the wounds of childhood -- Attachment and exploration: getting securely connected -- Identity and competence: becoming a self -- Concern and intimacy: moving out into the world -- Traumatized relationships: legacy of the dysfunctional family -- Part III: The imago puzzle II: childhood socialization -- "For your own good": the messages of socialization -- Recovering the missing self: love's agenda -- Gender and sexuality: making love, not war -- Part IV: The journey of partnership -- The imago: recipe for romance -- Partnership: the journey to consciousness -- Part V: Becoming a conscious single -- From insight to integration: basic strategies for change -- New skills, new behavior: steps to self-integration -- Real love: paradise regained.
CIT Module COUN 6009 - Core reading
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., has more than thirty-five years of 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 co-founder with his wife, Helen Lakelly Hunt, and president of the Institute for Imago Relationship Therapy, based in Winter Park, Florida.(Bowker Author Biography)