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Tables of Contents for The Marriage Clinic
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part I RESEARCH AND THEORY
1
110
Myths and Mistakes of Marital Therapy
3
28
Marital Therapy Effects: Little or Nothing with High Relapse
4
2
Giving Science a Chance
6
2
Dispelling Myths and Mistakes in Marital Therapy
8
15
Dispelling Myths About What Predicts Divorce
23
3
``Home Away From Home'': Creating a Marital Laboratory
26
5
Repair and the Core Triad of Balance
31
56
Balance in Marriage
31
6
The Core Triad of Balance: Interactive Behavior
37
31
The Core Triad of Balance: Perception
68
6
The Core Triad of Balance: Physiology
74
11
Summary
85
2
The Sound Marital House: A Theory of Marriage
87
24
Three Types of Stable, Happy Couples
88
8
Perpetual Problems in Stable Marriages
96
9
The Sound Marital House
105
6
Part II ASSESSMENT
111
66
The Assessment of Marriage
113
48
What I Want to Know When a Couple Comes in for Treatment
114
5
Addressing the Seven Questions
119
9
The Assessment of Physical Health
128
1
When Is Marital Therapy Contraindicated?
128
1
Case Example of Assessment Concepts: Murphy and Rose
129
4
The Case of George and Emma
133
28
The Disasters and Masters of Marriage
161
16
Love Maps
161
1
Fondness and Admiration System
162
1
Turning Toward Versus Turning Away
163
1
Sentiment Override
164
1
The Regulation of Conflict: Perpetual Problems
165
3
The Regulation of Conflict: Solvable Problems
168
2
Honoring Dreams
170
3
Creating Shared Meaning
173
4
Part III INTERVENTION
177
155
Assumptions and Intervention Overview
179
22
My Assumptions
179
6
The Modular Approach to Intervention
185
9
Intervention Overview
194
1
Menu Model of the Gottman Marriage Clinic
195
4
Specific Interventions, Therapeutic Moments, and Marital Walnuts
199
2
Enhancing the Marital Friendship
201
17
The Failed Bid
201
1
Goal: Couple Will Be Able to Process Their Own Interaction and Make It Better
202
1
The Interventions and Their Design
202
16
Solving What Is Solvable
218
16
Setting Up the Conflict Discussions
218
2
Resolving Problems That Can Be Resolved: The Five Skills
220
14
Living with the Inevitable
234
26
Establishing a Dialogue with Perpetual Problems
234
18
Dreams Within Conflict Case
252
8
Life Dreams and Shared Meanings
260
6
Case Example
263
3
Resistance to Change
266
15
Internal Working Models and the Sound Marital House
266
13
Other Sources of Resistance
279
2
Avoiding Relapse
281
11
The Failed Marital Argument
281
7
Build in Rituals of Emotional Connection
288
4
Pulling It All Together: Working as a Team and Terminating Therapy
292
15
Pulling It All Together
293
2
The Marital Poop Detector: Resetting the Negativity Threshold
295
5
More Intense and Rapid Early Treatment Combined with Fading
300
4
The Magic Five Hours a Week
304
1
When to Terminate Therapy: Unsuccessful Cases
304
2
In All Cases Expect Relapse: Follow-up Sessions
306
1
Emotion and Meta-emotion
307
15
A Case of Meta-emotion Mismatch
309
6
Other Sources of Mismatches: Emotion Metaphors
315
7
Buffering Children from Marital Conflict
322
10
Emotion-Dismissing vs. Emotion-Coaching Parents
322
3
The Contribution of Haim Ginott
325
4
Training Parents to Be Emotion-Coaching
329
3
Afterword
332
3
Appendices
335
88
References
423
20
Index
443