Research Catalog

Title

The science of couples and family therapy : behind the scenes at the love lab / John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman.

Author

Gottman, John Mordechai

Publication

• New York : W.W Norton & Company, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

Gottman, Julie Schwartz

Description

xvi, 340 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

John and Julie Gottman, world-renowned for bringing an evidence base to couples therapy, report here the results of a second empirical revolution in understanding couples and families. This change is not based on their guesswork, but on state-of-the-art science. The book you hold in your hands finally completes the old general systems theory of the 1960s, which metaphorically described processes but did not actually research them. A new general systems theory and therapy is presented here, one which will have profound implications for powerful clinical work with both couples and families. This new theory is based on 45 years of careful basic scientific research with thousands of couples and families, including synchronized observational, interview, physiological, and questionnaire data. The Gottmans have studied some families for as long as 20 consecutive years. Their work has led to their highly replicated ability to precisely predict the future of relationships, relationship happiness, and whether couples will divorce or not with as much as 94% accuracy. Their empirical work has also led them to develop and test a theory of specifically what makes relationships work. Each construct in this theory is precise and measurable and it is all written about and described here. This book presents an original new way of understanding relationships and families. Both theoretical and highly practical, and it will help clinicians become more effective in their everyday work.

Series Statement

A Norton professional book

Subject

• Family psychotherapy
• Couples therapy
• Divorce therapy
• Couples Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Divorce therapy
• Couples therapy
• Family psychotherapy
• Familientherapie
• Paartherapie

Note

• "A Norton professional book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The old general systems theory and the old family therapy -- What might be regulated in family homeostasis? -- What is trust? -- What is commitment? What is betrayal? -- A good theory needs data -- So, what's a relationship? -- Flooding and physiological calm -- Change -- The demand-withdraw pattern -- Our mighty theory: The sound relationship house -- What's behind demand-withdraw: meta-emotion mismatch -- The power of turning toward -- Examining relationship stability -- Enter the baby -- The family as the baby develops -- Summary of our family systems therapy.

ISBN

• 9780393712742
• 0393712745

LCCN

• 2017019910
• 13417474

OCLC

• ocn984973659
• 984973659
• SCSB-9784918

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library