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"... a stunning breakthrough in the field of books on relationships." -- Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle
"A major achievement!" -- Carol Adrienne, co-author of The Celestine Prophesy
"A major achievement!" -- Carol Adrienne, co-author of The Celestine Prophesy
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This book precisely maps a unique journey that turns the problems and conflicts that inevitably arise in relationships into opportunities for deeper connection. Illuminating case studies, guided self-inquiries, and challenging exercises help you discover how to engage your partner in a deeper dialogue and find ways of expressing the most profound and untamed aspects of your nature.
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Our sense of urgency to have relationships that feel intimate is often frustrated by a lack of understanding about what intimacy is, how to achieve it, and why it cannot be sustained. Read the first page
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Our sense of urgency to have relationships that feel intimate is often frustrated by a lack of understanding about what intimacy is, how to achieve it, and why it cannot be sustained. Read the first page
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a new view.,
By Karen Koshgarian (Mountain View, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Undefended Love (Paperback)
This book is about how to navigate the waters of partnership and intimacy, with genuine and authentic guidance. Every page has gems worth highlighting, and wisdom so true, it deserves multiple readings. The brilliance, and simplicity of the invitation to return to your authentic self as a measure of your true expression, is not only practical, but essential for the survival of any relationship. If you know and have experienced closeness, but think there's more, you're right. This book shows you how closeness is only an imitation for the real deal: intimacy. Whether in partnership with another, or with your deeper self, reading this book is absolutely worth your time and energy. Buy two and give one to someone you love.
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This is the Real Thing,
This review is from: Undefended Love (Paperback)
I saw this book on display while browsing through a bookstore several years ago and bought it for a friend who was struggling with her marriage. Then a week later I felt compelled to go back and buy a copy for myself. It's rather strange - I haven't read the entire book through yet, just chapters here and there. Its confronting, so I find myself procrastinating at all costs, even though I know its the most important information there is. It is one of the top 3 books I have in terms of significance to me (my other two major books are "A Course in Miracles" and "Power of Now"). This book is about what my life is for and what my marriage is for. Every time I read a few pages of the book I start to cry, just out of sheer happiness that someone is getting it right, that the book is even in existence! I am deeply grateful to the authors - thank you for this gift.
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A psychotherapist's goldmine.,
By Gerda K.Young, Ph.D. (Menlo Park, CA. USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Undefended Love (Paperback)
I have been a couples therapist for more than twenty years, and have never felt satisfied with the efficacy of existing approaches. In my clinical opinion, the Undefended Love model is the most exciting development in the field. I have never seen such a sensitive, compelling, respectful process. What Jett Psaris and Marlena Lyons have done in less than 200 pages is present a comprehensive theory of human development, describe the personality as an intricate self-defense structure, and delineate the ways our distorted beliefs about ourselves create identities that hide our vulnerability as we present ourselves to the world and even to those to whom we feel close.The ways in which these resulting structures prevent us from being able to sustain an intimate bond are discovered by way of a series of questions and processes which lead us to the only source of transformation, ourselves. Their model addresses human beings on every level, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and regardless of where the individual is in their life, the processes steadily lead the person closer to the undefended self. Their concepts are original and arresting: essential self, cracked identity, compensatory identity. The simplicity of their techniques for guiding individuals and couples into their internal landscape belies the power that they possess to bring a person to self-discovery and self-responsibility. The arrow is artfully turned from outside to inside, the road to intimacy, first with self, then with the other. Psaris and Lyons provide the reader with the means to explore themselves and their relationships in a way that gently expands their capacity to create fulfilment. I highly recommend this book to mental health professionals and to anyone interested in the human condition. And, all of this wisdom is wrapped in beautiful language. It is a treasure, and a pleasure to read. Gerda K.Young, Ph.D.
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