It's been more than three decades since Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt -- the best-selling authors of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find -- created Imago Relationship Therapy. Their concept of the conscious marriage introduced a new paradigm for understanding the dynamics of couples. Since that time more than two thousand clinicians in twenty-eight countries have adopted and implemented this highly effective form of couples therapy. This groundbreaking book offers an overview of the highly successful Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and the relationship of IRT with preceding schools of thought such as psychoanalytic theory, family systems theories, affect theory, and self-psychology. At the heart of IRT is a three-step process involving mirroring (reflecting) the partner's feelings, validating the partner's point of view, and the expressing empathy toward the partner's feelings. Imago Relationship Therapy traces IRT's history and explosive growth and outlines the differences and similarities between Imago theory and other models of couples therapy. The book also presents some of the ideas of prominent Imago thinkers, such as the central role of connectivity and the problem of envy in committed relationships.
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"A uniquely important book for the practitioner, which provides clinical wisdom and a rare look into the heart and soul of Imago Relationship Therapy."
--Pat Love, author, The Truth About Love
--Pat Love, author, The Truth About Love
"Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) is a major contemporary approach to helping couples in trouble, and in this book Therapy Harville Hendrix and his collaborators show us why. An intriguing and important contribution, the book describes the evolution of IRT principles and practice, clarifying both its theoretical and applied potential. These eminently practical essays, by an impressive panel of contributors, will expand the thinking of novice and seasoned practitioners alike."
--Jeffrey K. Zeig, director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
"Some of the very best thinkers and clinicians offer their insights into the importance of relationship. The book will help one to become a more effective therapist and a better partner! Well worth reading for anyone involved in the helping professions."
--Jon Carlson, distinguished professor, Governors State University
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Imago Relationship Therapy
It's been more than three decades since Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt—the best-selling authors of Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find—created Imago Relationship Therapy. Their concept of the "conscious marriage" introduced a new paradigm for understanding the dynamics of couples. Since that time more than two thousand clinicians in twenty-eight countries have adopted and implemented this highly effective form of couples therapy.
This groundbreaking book offers an overview of the highly successful Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and the relationship of IRT with preceding schools of thought such as psychoanalytic theory, family systems theories, affect theory, and self-psychology. At the heart of IRT is a three-step process involving mirroring (reflecting) the partner's feelings, validating the partner's point of view, and expressing empathy toward the partner's feelings. Imago Relationship Therapy traces IRT's history and explosive growth and outlines the differences and similarities between Imago theory and other models of couples therapy. The book also presents some of the ideas of prominent Imago thinkers, such as the central role of connectivity and the problem of envy in committed relationships.
"A uniquely important book for the practitioner, which provides clinical wisdom and a rare look into the heart and soul of Imago Relationship Therapy."
—Pat Love, Ed.D., author, The Truth About Love
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A great text, hard read but full of great info, very much written for the professional, but full of great stuff, if you want to move to the next level get it and read it
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The concept of the imago (Latin for match) in romantic relationship is based on the theory that we fall in love with those who most closely match our primary caregivers' negative and positive traits. OR we are selecting partners who are the polar opposites of those patterns we experienced in childhood. If this is correct it is no wonder that some relationships reflect a kind of "same role, different actor" scenario. The person you are dating may seem completley different from the others but it winds up playing out the same script and ending. This is not an indictment that something is wrong with you as a person. Rather, it hints that there may be an outdated imago match unconsciously driving these events to you. By changing and updating your imago match to suit an emotionally healthy partnership in the future, your life stories can change for the better. When you change the blueprint you have a different ending. Isn't it time for a happy ending after enough tragedy for a lifetime?
For more on the Imago Relationship Theory: http://imagorelationships.org/public.htm
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imago theory, systemic anxiety, behavior change requests, relationship nightmare, foundational connection, envied object, conscious marriage, relational paradigm, enjoyment joy, characterological issues, relationship therapy, separate knowing, receiving partner, core scene, affect theory, shame affect, script theory, couples workshop, connected knowing, dialogical process, work with couples Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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imago theory, systemic anxiety, behavior change requests, relationship nightmare, foundational connection, envied object, conscious marriage, relational paradigm, enjoyment joy, characterological issues, relationship therapy, separate knowing, receiving partner, core scene, affect theory, shame affect, script theory, couples workshop, connected knowing, dialogical process, work with couples Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Couples Dialogue, Imago Relationship Therapy, Stone Center, Old Testament, Basic Books, Behavior Change Request, Guilford Press, Henry Holt, Pocket Books, Harville Hendrix, International Universities Press, Positive Flooding, San Francisco, Teilhard de Chardin, Analytic Press, Harvard University Press, Heinz Kohut, Parent-Child Dialogue, Lost Self, Martin Buber, Jean Baker Miller, Jon Levenson, New Haven, Yale University Press New!
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- Healing in the Relational Paradigm: The Imago Relationship Therapy Casebook (Essays in Developmental Psychology) by Wade Luquet on page 7, and Back Matter
- Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples by Harville Hendrix on page 7, and Back Matter
- Keeping the Love You Find: A Personal Guide by Ph.D. Harville Hendrix on page 7, and Back Matter
- Giving The Love That Heals by Harville PhD Hendrix on page 215, and Back Matter
- The Restoration of the Self by Anna Freud on page 151
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