The Husbands and Wives Club; A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group

by Laurie Abraham

• ISBN13: 9781416585473
• ISBN10: 1416585478
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-09
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

Reporter Laurie Abraham documents the painful and frustrating, but ultimately successful, journey of five couples through group marriage counseling.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Who Would Submit to This?	p. 7
Sex Weekend	p. 26
Spouses Are Made, Not Born	p. 45
A Couple Never Lay on Freud's Couch	p. 62
The Impossibility of Pleasing in an Unhappy Marriage	p. 75
The No-Cry Rule (and How Sex Is Like Croutons)	p. 93
The Science of Marital Satisfaction	p. 107
"Marie Shrinks from Physicality, So We Prescribe It."	p. 129
Crisis Weekend	p. 145
The Attachment of Michael and Rachael	p. 160
Joe's Humiliation	p. 182
Marie's Revolt and Mark and Sue Ellen's Good-Bye	p. 194
"I'm Ambivalent about Staying Married."	p. 218
Secrets and Transformations	p. 238
The Adventure of Marie and Clem	p. 260
Epilogue: Therapy Worked?	p. 274
Bibliography	p. 293
Acknowledgments	p. 297
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