Existential/Dialectical Marital Therapy Breaking The Secret Code Of Marriage [Hardcover]

Charny has eloquently revealed the inherent contradictions in the individual and how these opposite parts of self are woven into the intricate fabric of a relationship. Therapy is directed toward an appreciation and processing of the strong and weak parts within each mate and for the couple together. Charny describes these concepts in engaging, simple, descriptive language. He moves from theory to offering a practical approach to working with the couple. This volume ranks as one of the most scholarly, original, and practical books on marital therapy of the last decade.
Gerald R. Weeks, PhD, Director of Training, Marriage Council of Philadelphia; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

From my perspective as a psychoanalytic practitioner, I find that this book presents a useful framework for understanding couples' interactions, couples' choices, and marital-therapists' choices. Charny deals forthrightly with the consequences of the dual limitations of the human condition -- death and kinship -­ and even provides a pragmatic and basically optimistic approach to what otherwise might turn out only to be pathetic or tragic failures.
Bennet Simon, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

A dialectic view of living as a person and as a couple together with an existential approach to couples therapy lead the author to a creative approach to helping couples to change. Charny presents a stimulating report of his extensive experience in practicing and teaching marital therapy.
Carl Whitaker, MD

An important contribution which makes explicit the systems concepts that are implicit in object relations theory of marital discord. What makes this contribution to the marital therapy lils›