How Can I Get Through to You: Reconnecting Men and Women

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Summary: Promises not delivered
Review: This book was a great dissapointment. His first work on men and depression was superb but this lacked the clearness and continuity of the subject matter. What started off as very intereisting led off into repetition, vague ideas without substance and generally nothing holding the book togeter. It isnot the kind of book you can read and use in our clinical practice. His stories of couples are too general and imposible to extract what theorical model he his trying to use.

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Summary: Real reads like a great novel - you can't put it down.
Review: Where was this book when I was in marriage counseling in the 70's? My husband and I were drinking and never, not once, did our therapist ask us if we had any addictions. Take away the alcohol and you're left with the depressed couple who have no clue how to talk to each other, let alone repair any day-to-day damage they have inflicted on their relationship. I found myself highlighting page after page saying to myself "Oh my God, this is me and my partner. Now I get it." This book is to be read slowly and carefully so you can understand, for the first time in your life, what is going on. Don't get married without it.