John M. Gottman, PhD, is the cofounder of The Gottman Institute and of Affective Software, Inc., and was recently honored with 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Psychotherapy Networker. He resides on Orcas Island, Washington. Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD, is the cofounder of The Gottman Institute and of Affective Software, Inc., and was recently honored with 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Psychotherapy Networker. She resides on Orcas Island, Washington.
"""This compendium of clinical brilliance is both fun and funny, filled with insightful humor and offering a deeply enjoyable journey for any clinician seeking to help couples thrive. What a gift to our professional world!""--Daniel J. Siegel, MD, ?New York Times best-selling author of?Aware, ?IntraConnected, and?Personality and Wholeness in Therapy Filled with practical, evidence-based, step-by-step strategies that should be part of every couple therapist's toolkit.--Douglas K. Snyder, PhD, professor of psychological and brain sciences, Texas A&M University (College Station), and coeditor of The Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy Perhaps the two most important clinician-researchers of the past fifty years . . . John and Julie Gottman pour all their brilliant research, professional experience, and passion for understanding and helping couples into this authoritative text for future generations of couples therapists.--Richard G. Tedeschi, PhD, professor emeritus, The?University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and executive director of The Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth We recommend this book to everyone--from student to seasoned clinician--who is involved in conversation, training, practice, research, and theory-building about marriage. This is an essential and primary source.--Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, coauthors of Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between"