The 7 Steps to Passionate Love: Why Men Are Not From Mars and Women Are Not From Venus [Hardcover]

MD Dr. William Van Horn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 14, 2000

The 7 Steps to Passionate Love is a revolutionary guide for people searching to enrich their relationships with a more profound and intimate experience of love. It is a challenge to become a more sensitive person, a more intimate companion and a more effective communicator.

The 7 Steps to Passionate Love breaks all the rules of traditional relationship guides by treating causes rather than symptoms. Dr. William Van Horn bases his teachings on studies that he conducted in his medical practice. He is a brain specialist with an emphasis on developmental and emotional healing. After years of research, he concluded that true individual healing could only occur through the experience of intimacy and love. This led him to his research and work with relationships. Ten years and thousands of couples later, he shares the principles that transformed these relationships in The 7 Steps to Passionate Love.

Dr. Van Horn empowers you with specific steps to develop and maintain passionate intimacy and love in your relationships. He teaches you what it means to love your partner, how to assess your capability of love, what to do to be a better lover and what to do if the process is not working. You will also be taught an emotional and spiritual maturation process that is necessary for your development as a lover. When you finish reading The 7 Steps to Passionate Love, you will know exactly what you need to do on a daily basis to experience and maintain passionate intimacy and love in your life.

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About the Author

William Van Horn is a practicing M.D. whose specialties include chemical illness of the brain, family system dynamics, developmental trauma, emotional healing, and relationships.

While directing an intensive treatment program that focused on emotional healing, Dr. Van Horn realized that the success of treatment was dependant on a foundation of intimate relationships. He then changed his focus to helping couples and families understand and develop enriching relationships.

Van Horn based The 7 Steps to Passionate Love on over a decade of medical work and studies with thousands of relationships, teaching emotional healing through love. He received his medical training at the University of South Alabama and completed his internship and residency at West Virginia University. His post-graduate training was in psychiatry with a strong medical and neurological emphasis. He has also completed continuing medical education courses at Harvard University in neurology and alternative medicine.

Since 1996, Van Horn has served as Medical Director of Medical Alternatives, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. He treats patients with a variety of illnesses, including sleep problems, cognitive deficits, substance abuse, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, headaches, depression and anxiety. He also continues to direct a 12-week emotional healing program.

Van Horn has over nine years experience as a radio show host and has delivered presentations on many topics, including, "The Misunderstood Organ: The Brain," "Loving Communication," "The Prozac Lie" and "The Greatest Gift: Intimacy and Love." He has also conducted workshops on these and other topics with over 600 participants.

Van Horn is the father of 6, including a newborn son, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife, Tamara.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 392 pages
• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group (February 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967735807
• ISBN-13: 978-0967735801
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,983,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Hope for a Truly Intimate, Loving Relationship On EARTH, January 28, 2000

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Anne Ruopp (Norcross, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 7 Steps to Passionate Love: Why Men Are Not From Mars and Women Are Not From Venus (Hardcover)

Having read Men Are From Mars; Women Are From Venus, John Gray misses the mark where really intimate, loving relationships are concerned. His perception of the dynamics involved in relationships between men and women brings to mind the movie The Stepford Wives. In the movie, women are merely automotons, meeting the basic needs and desires of men, never needing to relate intimately with them or get involved in their lives. Rather than offering a hollow substitute, Dr. William Van Horn's book, The Seven Steps to Passionate Love, teaches couples how to enjoy a relationship of satisfying substance built on a solid foundation. You will not only learn what skills and tools are necessary to build and maintain true intimacy and passion in your relationship, but also how to heal the pain each partner brings into it. You will also learn how to break the destructive patterns that prevent lovers from effectively communicating. If this book had been available ten years ago, my husband and I would not have wasted so much time, money and energy on other ineffective books, tapes, videos and marriage councelling. We have literally fallen in love again and enjoy a truly intimate,loving,passionate relationship we never dreamed possible. Learning The Seven Steps to Passionate Love helped a dream become a reality. Thank you, Dr. Van Horn!

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Life Advice, January 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The 7 Steps to Passionate Love: Why Men Are Not From Mars and Women Are Not From Venus (Hardcover)

My wife and I read this book together and love it. A few years ago we read the Mars Venus one and felt like we had to act in serotypical ways, it was very limiting. This book goes way beyond that stupid cave theory and helps you understand love is something that you can get if you have the capability to love. Our love is now rekindled and better than ever. If you can use help with your love life, you and your spouse should read this.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally! A Relationship Book with Depth, January 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The 7 Steps to Passionate Love: Why Men Are Not From Mars and Women Are Not From Venus (Hardcover)

I wanted to learn how to energize my marriage, but I couldn't find any book that offered real solutions. When I read "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", I had trouble relating to the women John Gray described, so it was difficult to apply any of his teachings (most of which, by the way, seemed very sexist to me).

Dr. Van Horn talks about experiencing love on a whole new level and that's exactly what my marriage needed. Now, my husband and I are even closer to each other than we were when we first met. It feels good to share this love again and it spills out into our relationship with our children and friends. After reading this book, I feel WHOLE.