Author: Wayne M. Sotile Publisher: American Medical Association Press ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 304
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This book gives an enlightening and compassionate look at the partners in a physician relationship, both as individuals and as a couple. Using illustrative case narratives and simple self-assessment tools, it helps readers common to physician families that can cause strain and tension in a marriage. Whether you are newly married or entering retirement after many years of marriage, "The Medical Marriage will teach you how to pinpoint the individual and interactive steps so that your best skills fuel--rather than damage--your marriage and family life.
Author: Judy Goldman Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385543956 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 225
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Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regain their "normal" life. When Judy Goldman’s husband of almost four decades has a routine spinal injection to alleviate back pain, he is instantly paralyzed from the waist down—a phenomenon no doctor can explain or undo. She’s forced to take over, navigating the byzantine medical world they suddenly find themselves in. Her husband is forced to give in. This is the starting point for Together, which looks at the changes every couple faces—the slow, ordinary ones brought about by time and the sudden, dramatic ones that take us by surprise. Identities shift; roles switch. How do we adjust? How do we let go of the if-onlys? Together is a deeply honest story about the life we dream of and the life we make—an elegant and empathetic meditation on what happens to love, over time and all at once.
Author: Glen O. Gabbard Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub ISBN: 9780880482608 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 208
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A variety of authors examine the inner workings of the physician's marriage -- the psychological issues and sources of conflict that emerge in the various stages of marriage and family. The authors include notable experts who share their years of clinical experience in helping physicians and their families learn new ways to improve communication, balance the demands of work and family, and grow and change together constructively.
Author: Marcus Warner Publisher: Moody Publishers ISBN: 0802497756 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 194
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What separates happy marriages from miserable ones? Surprisingly, it’s not healthy communication. It’s not conflict resolution skills. It’s actually the size of the marriage’s joy gap . Joy Gap/joi gap/ (n.)-1. The length of time between moments of shared joy When the joy gap gets bigger, problems are more likely to overwhelm you, resentment creeps in, and you start to feel distant and alone in your marriage. When the joy gap is smaller, you regularly feel connected and happy, problems feel manageable, and your marriage becomes a reliable source of joy. But how do you ensure that you’re experiencing joy regularly? Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey have studied relationships (and neuroscience) and discovered four habits that keep joy regular and problems small. Some couples do them naturally, but anyone can learn. That’s why each chapter includes 15-minute exercises that boost joy and re-train your brain to make joy your default setting. You’ll learn new skills including how to: return to joy more quickly after disconnection create stronger bonds and elongate times of happiness boost your enjoyment of physical and emotional intimacy Find out what your marriage looks like after a little work and a whole lot of joy.
Author: James V. Cordova Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn ISBN: 9781433815522 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 268
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Although relationship science has shown that relationship health is as real as mental and physical health, and that relationship health has powerful effects on mental health, physical health, and the health and welfare of children, relationship healthcare remains decades behind dental and physical healthcare. This is especially true when it comes to regular preventative care and early intervention. Like all the systems within our bodies, our relationships require attention in order to thrive. The Marriage Checkup (MC) is one way clinicians can create spaces where partners can, for a moment, leave the busywork of daily life behind and reenter the intimate space between them with loving attention. The MC is a short, two-session, assessment and feedback marital health check designed to help couples confront their problems on an annual basis. It provides partners with a regular forum in which to examine that for which they are most grateful and that about which they are genuinely concerned. Designed to foster and deepen intimacy, the MC provides couples with feedback from which they can discover new ideas about how to best serve the health of their marriage and the intimacy of their connection. In this book, James V. Cordova describes how clinicians can encourage partners to maintain their marital health by attending to their strengths, managing their areas of conflict gracefully, and regularly providing the relationship with loving attention. He also shows how to prevent marital health deterioration by attuning partners to corrosive patterns in their relationship. Useful early interventions are described and illustrated generously with case examples. Therapists working with partners who are already severely distressed when they present for their Marriage Checkup will learn how to motivate them to seek out more extensive tertiary care.
Author: David Hawkins Publisher: Harvest House Publishers ISBN: 0736974202 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 242
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Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? When you first met your spouse you probably had a physical response to the emotions you felt. You’d get butterflies in your stomach, your heart would race, and your palms would sweat. So why is it that after you’re married, it’s so hard to make the connection between your physical health and your emotional well-being when you’re facing relational stress? If your emotional pain feels physical and your physical pain feels emotional, your marriage may be making you sick—literally. Join Dr. David Hawkins and his sons, an internist and a surgeon, as they explore the effects relational stress and trauma can have on our bodies. You will learn to . . . recognize the link between emotional and physical pain embrace the power of choice to become empowered by hope find a path forward to ultimate restoration and regain your life No matter what kind of pain you’re experiencing, or how long your health has been in decline, you don’t have to stay stuck. Discover hope and healing when you take control of your life.
Author: Wayne M. Sotile Publisher: Birch Lane Press ISBN: 9781559723053 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 265
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This volume examines the secrets of the medical couples who manage to avoid or escape a bad marriage and addresses their intimate lives. What makes a good marriage when one or both spouses are physicians? Physicians experience stress, depression, substance abuse, obsessive-compulsiveness, and workaholism and commit suicide more often than the general population. In addition, the spouse of a physician can become trapped in a self-focused style of coping that ruins the marriage. Here, doctors and their spouses learn about the stages of the medical couple's journey; the issues that make money a source of stress in the medical marriage; eight type of medical marriages -- their strengths and weaknesses; nine characteristics of highly successful medical couples; the Intimacy Formula for a high-passion medical marriage; and six keys for negotiating differences without damaging the relationship.
Author: Howard Jones, Jr. Publisher: ISBN: 9780989719988 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 298
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HOWARD W. JONES, JR. (1910-2015) was one of the most charismatic and ingenious figures of his generation in American medicine. From before his World War II service as a battlefield surgeon, he was pioneering advances in surgery and gynecological oncology and endocrinology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School alongside his distinguished wife and collaborator, GEORGEANNA SEEGAR JONES, M.D. (1912-2005). After reaching the mandatory age for retirement, they moved from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, where they launched the nation's first in vitro fertilization (IVF) program for patients with infertility. Dr. Jones' humanity, longevity, and industriousness were legendary; he published three books after becoming a centenarian. This last book includes a chapter from his late wife's unpublished lectures, another chapter by his longtime assistant Nancy Garcia, and a prologue by the editors, Drs. Lucinda Veeck Gosden and Roger G. Gosden, who were his former colleagues. Includes illustrations, family memories, and short tributes to the Joneses from over a hundred friends, colleagues, and patients around the world.
Author: Caroline Anderson Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1426834926 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 185
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Midwife Isabelle Thompson is convinced it must have been a heady mix of the warm Tuscan sun and the powerful chemistry between herself and obstetrician Luca Valtieri that made her, for once, follow her heart. And it led her right into the gorgeous Italian's bed! Back in London, Isabelle vows never to contact Luca. How can she trust a man she barely knows? Then he arrives in town as her hospital's new obstetrician, and she discovers that their passionate night has left her pregnant! Luca promises Isabelle he can give her the life she's dreamed of...if she agrees to his deal.
Author: John Gottman, Ph.D. Publisher: Harmony ISBN: 0609899538 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 320
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Just as Masters and Johnson were pioneers in the study of human sexuality, so Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over the course of many years. His findings, and his heavily attended workshops, have already turned around thousands of faltering marriages. This book is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward in their approach, yet profound in their effect, these principles teach partners new and startling strategies for making their marriage work. Gottman helps couples focus on each other, on paying attention to the small day-to-day moments that, strung together, make up the heart and soul of any relationship. Being thoughtful about ordinary matters provides spouses with a solid foundation for resolving conflict when it does occur and finding strategies for living with those issues that cannot be resolved. Packed with questionnaires and exercises whose effectiveness has been proven in Dr. Gottman's workshops, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the result of Dr. John Gottman's many years of closely observing thousands of marriages. This kind of longitudinal research has never been done before. Based on his findings, he has culled seven principles essential to the success of any marriage. Maintain a love map. Foster fondness and admiration. Turn toward instead of away. Accept influence. Solve solvable conflicts. Cope with conflicts you can't resolve. Create shared meaning. Dr. Gottman's unique questionnaires and exercises will guide couples on the road to revitalizing their marriage, or making a strong one even better.
Author: Wayne M. Sotile
Author: Judy Goldman
Author: Glen O. Gabbard
Author: Marcus Warner
Author: James V. Cordova
Author: David Hawkins
Author: Wayne M. Sotile
Author: Howard Jones, Jr.
Author: Caroline Anderson
Author: John Gottman, Ph.D.