The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I want to renowned the courageous present that several
thousand volunteer studies couples have contributed to my
know-how. Their willingness to reveal the most non-public components of
their personal lives has opened a hitherto closed door that has made it
viable to assemble those Seven Principles for making marriages
work.
This e book turned into based on research that received non-stop
guide from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Behavioral
Science Research Branch. Of extraordinary help become the dedicated
steerage of Molly Olive ri, Delia Hahn, and Joy Schulterbrandt.
This book become also made possible through a number of critical
collaborations that have been a happy part of my lifestyles. These include
the main collaboration that has graced my existence for the past nineteen
years with Professor Robert Levenson of the University of California.
Also essential to me has been my collaboration with NeilJacob
son of the University of Washington and my paintings with Dr. Laura
Carstensen of Stanford University I had been blessed with rich
institutions interior my laboratory.
The cornerstones were Sharon Fentiman, whose beauty
significantly improves my existence and continues me from chaos; Dr. Sybil Cart ere,
who runs my lab and is a top notch colleague; and Cathryn Swan son,
my programmer and statistics analyst. Not simplest are they pals and
intellectual partners, but they help make coming to paintings a
exceptional enjoy. I additionally wish to acknowledge the contributions and
stimulation of Lynn Katz.
My spouse, Julie Schwartz Gottman, provided love, friendship,
motivation, intellectual camaraderie, help, and conceptual
company. She has additionally been my trainer and manual in practicing
psychotherapy. She made doing the couples' and dad and mom' workshops
an interesting innovative revel in. While we are busy with our complete-time
jobs, Etana Dykan capably runs our Seattle Marital and Family
Institute with extremely good spirit and attention to detail, and she or he also facilitates
facilitate our verbal exchange. Her amazingly creative brother, Shai
Steinberg, has also been a high-quality asset in lots of regions of our
paintings. Linda Wright helps us maintain the couples' company very hot
and human--she is strangely talented in talking to determined couples.
Peter Langsam has been our trustworthy consultant and associate
during, assisting us with wise suggest, elemental steerage, and
commercial enterprise sense.
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