How's Your Marriage?

Dr. Michael Myers, a skilled clinician and psychotherapist, should be congratulated on having written a clear, concise, and useful guide for men and women experiencing marital difficulties. Consideration of psychotherapy can be frightening, and thoughts of marital therapy can be very frightening to both partners. Dr. Myers demystifies common marital problems with a common-sense approach to understanding marital therapy and the processes and potential results. Couples will find this book engaging and practical. Many therapists will be comfortable sharing this well written explanation of marital therapy with their patients. Elissa P. Benedek, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan In this easy-to-read, practical, and informative guide, Dr. Myers offers a much needed introduction to the world of marital and relational problems. Considering the endemic amount of marital distress, emotional pain, and divorce in our postmodern culture, nothing could be more relevant. Dr. Myers's observations and generous suggestions come from his years of experience in dealing with marital problems. This book is quite unique in its consideration of marital problems from the vantages of the life cycle, gender, and the presence of psychiatric problems. Dr. Myers introduces and explains the burgeoning field of marital-relational therapies and does this in a way that demystifies and destigmatizes and hence will allow many more suffering couples and individuals to avail themselves of much needed help. Richard A. Perlmutter, M.D.Psychiatrist, Private Practice, Author of A Family Approach to Psychiatric Disorders, Towson, Maryland Clear, practical, and sound clinical advice from an experienced marital therapist and psychiatrist about relationships. Men and women will find answers to many of their questions concerning a variety of problems including extra marital affairs, sexual difficulties, excessive drinking, and psychiatric disorders. Issues of separation and divorce are discussed and the benefits and process of marital therapy are explained. I recommend it! Judith H. Gold, C.M., M.D., F.R.C.P.C., Psychiatrist, Private Practice, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

This guide that can help you and your partner build a lasting, healthy relationship while easing tensions and resolving troublesome issues. The author examines common difficulties and how these difficulties can affect your marriage. He offers advice and guidance on how you can resolve these problems while enhancing communication.

Like gardens, all relationships require care, patience, and nurturing to flourish. Because we are beset with the demands and frustrations of daily life, however, we often put off the hard work and care that are needed to ensure bountiful and harmonious marriage. As a result, seemingly minor tensions and problems that simmer beneath the surface can become major difficulties that affect the stability of the union.

Written by an experienced marital therapist, How's Your Marriage? is an indispensable guide that can help you and your partner build a lasting, healthy relationship while easing tensions and resolving troublesome issues. Using the insight gained from over two decades of practicing couples therapy, Dr. Michael Myers examines common difficulties—sex, life-cycle changes, infidelity, drinking, mental illness, and concerns about children—and how these difficulties can affect your marriage. He offers sage advice and guidance on how you can resolve these problems while at the same time enhancing communication with your spouse, an essential part of a solid, loving, and fulfilling relationship.

Dr. Myers also uses numerous case examples and question-and-answer sections to illustrate common complaints and ways to resolve them. He examines the role gender plays in developing the different perceptions and misunderstandings that lie at the root of so many relationship problems and offers practical solutions to these differences.

How's Your Marriage? explains how you can detect the warning signs of possible marital woe and the steps you can take to resolve these problems at their source. To allay the anxiety that you may have regarding marital therapy, Dr. Myers discusses therapy in great detail. He describes the different therapeutic techniques and the types of therapists who use them. He also includes lists of suggested readings, self-help groups, and national associations for marriage therapists that can help you take the right steps to resolving problems or troubles in your marriage.

Armed with this advice and guidance, you and your partner can work together to strengthen and improve your relationship, to...read more...