This is a self-help book and video set. I have designed the video to be used with the book as illustration of each chapter. The chapters are presented as lessons for self study couples therapy and reflect the work I do with couples in my office. The end of each chapter encourages the readers to do an assignment that will increase both their skills and their knowledge of themselves and each other.
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This engaging and practical book offers seven marital sessions for couples to read and do at home. The video provides examples of three different couples practicing these effective techniques in real life home settings. You will grow in communication, asking for what you want, anger management, self knowledge about how your past can be running your relationship, and becoming better friends with the help of this book and video.
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When I was visiting Costa Rica one year, I met a person who had come to a lecture I had given in San Francisco. I remember how animated she was when she said they sure needed a good marriage therapist in the area she was in which she was visiting friends. This started me thinking that I would like to put together in a book and video what I do with couples so others could use the material who aren't near therapists like in Costa Rica, or in groups at churches or clubs, and as review and reference for others working with me or other therapists. The feedback I receive tells me that I have succeeded.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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We know each other so much better,
By julie panger (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love In The Trenches: A Couple's Guide To Transforming The Power Struggle (book and video set) (Paperback)
Al Crowell's book, Love in the Trenches, does what it says: it helps you overcome the power struggle. My husband and I were stuck in putting each other down and feeling like we were getting ripped off in our marriage. A friend gave us the book and video and said, "Now there's no excuse for not getting some help." Since it was Mike's boss (and friend)who gave us the book, we tried it out. The book is arranged into sessions as if you were going to therapy. The video augments the chapters with real couples doing the work. Each chapter moved us along in the skills of listening to each other, asking more clearly for what we wanted and pushed us to get to know ourselves and each other better. As you practice listening to each other for instance, you talk about your relationship to your parents and their relationship to each other. It was scary to see how similar we had become to them. I had to see that much of what I was blaming Mike for were my own inadequacies. And when he became a better listener and stopped trying to fix me I saw him more as a friend. He also learned a lot about his anger from that section of the book and video. We aren't perfect but the book and video really helped us to listen to each much better and also give caring things to each other which helps the romance.
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