Getting Love Right: Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy (Fireside Parkside Books) [Paperback]

Terence T. Gorski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 10, 1993 | Series: Fireside Parkside Books

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN HOW TO LOVE

When you fall in love you may be repeating bad relationship habits that you learned growing up or in a previous unhealthy relationship. No matter what your history, Getting Love Right can explain how to build and maintain healthy intimacy, including:

* How to recognize if you are in a compulsive, apathetic, or healthy relationship

* How to become a person who is capable of healthy intimacy

* How to choose a healthy partner

If you are in a relationship or want to be in one, Terence T. Gorski will teach you that love isn't just something that happens -- love is something you can learn.

Editorial Reviews

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Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse author of Coupleship: How to Build a Relationship Terry has taken the overwhelming mystery out of relationships and offered the reader a way to understand the choices that are made to enhance or destroy the intimacy between two people.

John Lee author of The Flying Boy If I had read this book 20 years ago then my relationship history would be very different and not nearly as painful. It has helped me in my current relationship.

Claudia Black, Ph.D. author of It Will Never Happen to Me and Double Duty [An] exciting new approach to relationship therapy...

About the Author

Terence T. Gorski, M.A., N.C.A.C. II, is the president of CENAPS® Corporation, a consultation and training firm that specializes in alcoholism, drug dependence, and mental-health services. He lives in Flossmoor, Illinois.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone (August 10, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671864157
• ISBN-13: 978-0671864156
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Terence T. Gorski is the president of The CENAPS Corporation, a training and consultation firm specializing in recovery from addictive disease and relapse prevention therapy. He is a popular speaker and conducts training and workshops in more than twenty different cities each year. Mr. Gorski is the author of numerous books, audio, and video tapes, including Passages Through Recovery -- An Action Plan for Preventing Relapse, Staying Sober -- A Guide for Relapse Prevention, The Staying Sober Work-book, and How to Start Relapse Prevention Support Groups. He is the clinical director of the National Relapse Prevention Certification School, which trains counselors and therapists in relapse prevention therapy methods.

Customer Reviews

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Know a good relationship when you see one., April 23, 2000

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alice savage, M.S. (Sarasota, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting Love Right: Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy (Fireside Parkside Books) (Paperback)

This realistic look at any relationship is a must for everyone. As a counselor I use it as a tool for groups, and individual counselor. However, the content applies to anyone in, or begining a relationship on any level. I have bought several copies for friends and family, and probably will buy more. I recommend it highly for parents to share with their children as a guideline for revealing the components of a good or bad relationship. Not just for those who have an addiction. Easy read, profound content.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent dense material that will really help you to understand how you make relationship choices, January 17, 2007

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This review is from: Getting Love Right: Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy (Fireside Parkside Books) (Paperback)

This book is NOT a popular quick fix approach to choosing a life or romantic partner. Rather, it is a tour book that explores where you have been in terms of relationships, how you got that way, the healthy and unhealthy patterns and how to correct them. While it is a book that contains many useful concepts, it also includes exercises that get at your most deeply held beliefs about relationship both healthy and unhealty. It looks at your family of origin, relationship history and shows you how to escape unhealthy patterns through deep awareness.

If you are looking for a bedside story that merely makes you feel good, then this isn't your book. If you want to understand at a deep level why you made unhealthy relationship choices in the past and are willing to do the work to change, this is a valuable roadmap, tool and companion on that journey. I do psychological work with people and I often recommend this volume to people who are serious about serious change.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The must "how to" book for relationships, great group tool., June 22, 2000

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alice savage, M.S. (Sarasota, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting Love Right: Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy (Fireside Parkside Books) (Paperback)

I have nothing but praise for the content and practicality of Terrence Gorski's book.I have recently started to use his book as a tool in my weekly groups on relationships, in a residential rehab addiction facility. Terrencce Gorski gets to the heart of relationships and how to rethink old behaviors which have led to bad ones. The partners of my clients have bought the book once my clients start the group. They are reccomending it to their friends and family. "Getting Love Right" is changing their relationships and bringing families back together. I reccomend it highly and will continue to use it as the basis of my releationship groups.