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An exploration and discussion of the relationship between man and woman. Couples talk about the intimate details of their relationship and express their innermost feelings. Carl Rogers is the innovator of "client-centred" therapy. In this book he takes an objective position.
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Format:Hardcover
I have loved this book for many years and recommended it to many people. Most of its pages involve talking to (mainly successful) couples about how they made it work - the last chapter draws the threads together into a few clear guidelines - if you and your partner cannot agree on these guidelines - I believe, it's less likely to work. Should be on the curriculum for every teenager, engaged couple and singles looking to start again and get it right next time. Yes it's a bit dated (you mean there are alternatives to marriage?!)- but the fundamental truths about relationships don't change so quick. Recommended!
Format:Hardcover
This book is old, but the content is just as relevant today as it was in 1970. This book identifies several key factors which directly affect the success of relationships - in a variety of settings. Rogers provides direct transcripts of conversations, which let you hear the voice of the people he has interviewed. I felt his respect for, and human engagement with, the people he writes about was clearly demonstrated and fits well with his Person Centered approach. The book is well referenced and is still a good source of research reading.
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Wonderful!
14 Jun 2004
Format:Paperback
Great book about the challenges of partnership. It includes lessons learned from life and therapy, that will surely apply to your life. Rogers was a great man with a lot of hope for what the human race COULD be.
The world needs more humanistic psychology crafted with empathy for the potential we all have within us.
I miss him and his ideas very much.
Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
CARL ROGERS OPEN TO NEW FORMS OF LOVING
23 Sep 2010
Carl Rogers
Becoming Partners:
Marriage and its Alternatives
(New York: Delacorte, 1972) 243 pages
This book consists mostly of interviews with ordinary people
who have normal problems in their loving relationships.
Rogers is open to rational experimentation with new forms of marriage.
Looking for more recent books along this line?
Search the Internet for the following bibliography:
"The Best Books Critical of Traditional Marriage".
Becoming Partners:
Marriage and its Alternatives
(New York: Delacorte, 1972) 243 pages
This book consists mostly of interviews with ordinary people
who have normal problems in their loving relationships.
Rogers is open to rational experimentation with new forms of marriage.
Looking for more recent books along this line?
Search the Internet for the following bibliography:
"The Best Books Critical of Traditional Marriage".
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
CARL ROGERS INTERVIEWS PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR MARRIAGE
21 Sep 2010
Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was an influential American psychologist and (along with Abraham Maslow) among the founders of humanistic psychology.
He states in the Introduction to this 1972 book, "The book is... a series of slices, pictures, perceptions---of relationships, breakdowns, restructurings---in a wide variety of partnerships. These inner views are presented in a nonevaluative fashion. Are the unions 'good' or 'bad' or do they belong in some other judgmental category? I do not know. They EXIST. It is my belief that you will find here highly intimate and meaningful accounts of the man-woman relationship as it is actually lived---with all its tragedies, dull plateaus, ecstatic moments or periods, and instance after instance of exciting growth."
Here are some quotations from the book:
"It is becoming increasingly clear that a man-woman relationship will have permanance only to the degree to which it satisfies the emotional, psychological, intellectual, and physical needs of the partners. This means that the permanent marriage of the future will be even better than marriage in the present, because the ideals and goals for that marriage will be of a higher order. The partners will be demanding more of the relationship than they do today." (Ch. 1)
"Marriage and the nuclear family constitute a failing institution, a failing way of life. No one would argue that these have been highly succesful. We need laboratories, experiments, attempts to avoid repeating past failures, exploration into new approaches." (Ch. 10)
He states in the Introduction to this 1972 book, "The book is... a series of slices, pictures, perceptions---of relationships, breakdowns, restructurings---in a wide variety of partnerships. These inner views are presented in a nonevaluative fashion. Are the unions 'good' or 'bad' or do they belong in some other judgmental category? I do not know. They EXIST. It is my belief that you will find here highly intimate and meaningful accounts of the man-woman relationship as it is actually lived---with all its tragedies, dull plateaus, ecstatic moments or periods, and instance after instance of exciting growth."
Here are some quotations from the book:
"It is becoming increasingly clear that a man-woman relationship will have permanance only to the degree to which it satisfies the emotional, psychological, intellectual, and physical needs of the partners. This means that the permanent marriage of the future will be even better than marriage in the present, because the ideals and goals for that marriage will be of a higher order. The partners will be demanding more of the relationship than they do today." (Ch. 1)
"Marriage and the nuclear family constitute a failing institution, a failing way of life. No one would argue that these have been highly succesful. We need laboratories, experiments, attempts to avoid repeating past failures, exploration into new approaches." (Ch. 10)
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