The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relat

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Focuses on the anxiety that is born of unhappy relationships--with a loved one, best friend, or family member--and offers advice on how to improve relations.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged--by distance, intensity, or pain--she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness with others. Combining clear advice with vivid case examples, Dr. Lerner offers us the most solid, helpful book on intimate relationships that both women and men may ever encounter.

Author Biography

Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., is one of our nation"s most loved and respected relationship experts. Renowned for her work on the psychology of women and family relationships, she served as a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic for more than two decades. A distinguished lecturer, workshop leader, and psychotherapist, she is the author of The Dance of Anger and other bestselling books. She is also, with her sister, an award-winning children's book writer. She and her husband are therapists in Lawrence, Kansas, and have two sons.

Review

"A wise and compassionate book that will teach the reader much about the complex emotions our family and love relationships engender." -- Lillian B. Rubin, Ph.D., author of Intimate Strangers "Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend." -- Maggie Scarf "Dr. Lerner has a truly remarkable ability to analyze our problems with intimacy. She has written a hopeful, respectful, and transforming book." -- Carol C. Nadelson, M.D., former president of the American Psychiatric Association

Review Quote

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

Description for Teachers/Educators

This book examines those relationships where intimacy is most challenged by too much distance, too much intensity, or simply too much pain. In clear, direct, and dramatic terms, Dr. Lerner illustrates how we can move differently in these key relationships-be they with a distant or unfaithful spouse, a depressed sister, a difficult mother, an alcoholic father, an uncommited lover, a dying parent, or a family member whom we have written off. And she teaches us about -the differences that make a difference'-the changes we can make in one or two significant relationships that will affect our capacity for intimacy and selfhood over the long haul. Through vivid and poignant examples from case studies and stories from her own life, Dr. Lerner shows us how good relationships can thrive and endure and difficult ones can be healed, and she illuminates the specific steps that women can take toward a more solid self and a more intimate connectedness with others.

Details ISBN006091646X Short Title DANCE OF INTIMACY Pages 272 Language English ISBN-10 006091646X ISBN-13 9780060916466 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Subtitle A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Author Harriet Lerner DOI 10.1604/9780060916466 UK Release Date 2003-09-18 US Release Date 2003-09-18 Illustrator Tony Ross Birth 1949 Affiliation San Diego State University Position Professor of English Qualifications Ph.D. Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-09-18 Imprint William Morrow Paperbacks Alternative 9780061741074 DEWEY 158.2 Audience General AU Release Date 1991-02-03 NZ Release Date 1999-01-26 Imprint US William Morrow Paperbacks Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this

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