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Recommended Readings

We would like to recommend some books that you might find useful as a resource. The list will be revised from time to time, so we suggest you bookmark the page for future reference. Our current suggestions include:

Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT - New Harbinger Pubns Inc; Original edition, 2012

Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy
Marion Solomon, Ph.D. and Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT - W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

What happens between partners that makes love turn to war? How can couples therapists help deescalate the battles? Two leading therapists apply the latest neuroscience research on emotional arousal to help couples regulate each other’s emotions, maintain secure attachment, and foster positive, enduring relationships.

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Sue Johnson, Ph.D. - Little, Brown & Company, 2008

Dr. Johnson talks about the Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love that will create stronger, more secure relationships.

Tell Me No Lies
Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. and Peter T. Pearson, Ph.D. with Judith D. Schwartz
- St. Martin’s Press, 2000

This book is about how to stop lying to your partner – and yourself – in the four stages of marriage.

Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Esther Perel - Harper Collins, 2006

This book addresses the dynamics of domestic couples and reveals how to emotionally and physically love without losing ourselves.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
David Schnarch, Ph.D. - Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., 1997

Dr. David Schnarch's book is a daring and pioneering work that challenges couples to work together on the sexual and emotional blocks that hold them back from total satisfaction with each other. Dr. David Schnarch talks about love and intimacy in committed relationships, from the point of view of systems theory and, in particular, the concept of "differentiation". This concept is similar to "related individuality", a notion that is integral to The Couple Enrichment Approach^TM.

The Art of Loving
Erich Fromm - Harper & Row, 1956

The Couple Enrichment Approach™ has incorporated some of the core ideas presented in Fromm's book, namely that love is an art, an activity that requires learning and mastery through disciplined practice.

Understanding Human Nature
Alfred Adler, 1927 - Hazelden Foundation, 1998

An introduction to the world of Adlerian psychology with an underlying view that human beings would live together more satisfactorily if they had more knowledge about human nature.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
John M. Gottman, Ph.D. - Three Rivers Press, 1999

John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to observe the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over many years.

Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life
Kathleen Adams - Warner Books, 1990

A nationally known expert in journal therapy describes specific techniques for keeping your own journal. This is a step-by-step guide to creating a powerful tool for better living – and a simple, rewarding way to achieve greater self-awareness.

For Better of for Worse...But Not for Lunch: Making Marriage Work in Retirement
Sara Yogev, Ph.D. - McGraw-Hill E-Books, 2001

Retirement has come to have a devastating impact on marriages, and Dr. Sara Yogev, a psychologist specializing in work-family issues, explores this thoroughly in this engaging, warm, and incisive book. Yogev's work in this area reveals that even the most happily married couples experience great difficulty coping with everything from "premature retirement" to "unrealistic expectations fostered by the media and baby-boomer consciousness." Relying on vivid case studies from her own practice, Yogev explains why retirement is much harder psychologically on couples today than in years past and offers techniques and tools for preserving relationships threatened by problems that arise after retirement.

Professional Schools of Psychology & Training Resources

www.stantatkin.com
A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT)

www.adler.ca
Adler Professional Schools (Toronto, Canada)

www.adler.edu

The Alder School of Professional Psychology (Chicago, Illinois)

www.alfredadler.org
The North American Society for Adlerian Psychology (NASAP)

www.oaccpp.ca
Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Pyschometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP)

www.career-lifeskills.com
Career/LifeSkills Resources Inc. - Offer training programs, tests, test booklets, scoring materials etc. for the MBTI™ and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ (registered trademarks of Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc.).

www.psychometrics.com
Psychometrics Canada Ltd. - provides training and resources for psychologists, counsellors, mental health professionals, career coaches, HRD and organizational development specialists using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™, Strong Interest Inventory®, FIRO-B and other personality, skills and assessment inventories.

www.sieccan.org
Sex Education and Information Council of Canada (SIECCAN) is a national non-profit educational organization established to foster public and professional education about human sexuality.

www.siecus.org
Sex Education and Information Council of the United States. SIECUS develops, collects, and disseminates information, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.

Parenting - An Adlerian Approach

A video and online-based approach to parenting with some wonderful books to read. You can purchase all of Dr. Michael Popkin's books on Amazon.ca. (We suggest that you use this Canadian distributor, because Amazon.com does not have all his books available):

Some helpful books to get started:

Active Parenting Now in 3: Your Three-Part Guide to a Great Family by Michael H. Popkin (Paperback - Apr 27, 2005)

Parenting Your 1-4-Year-Old (Paperback, May 28, 2003)

Doc Pop's 52 Weeks of Active Parenting: Proven Ways to Build a Healthy and Happy Family (Hardcover, Jan 5, 2005)

Active Parenting of Teens (Paperback, Oct 16, 2009)

Active Parenting Now: For Parents of Children Ages 5 to 12 (Paperback, May 28, 2009)

Biographical information about Dr. Popkin: http://www.activeparenting.com/About-Michael_Popkin 

The Theory behind Active Parenting: http://www.activeparenting.com/About-Adler 

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

Super Immunity is a proven program to help boost your immunity and stay healthy. It is a compelling, yet easy-to-follow approach that gets the body's immune system working to its fullest potential, promoting the body's strongest defense. From avoiding common infections and dangerous bacteria, to preventing cellular dysplasia and cancer, Dr. Fuhrman reviews the power of nutritional excellence and the super foods that can enable us to push the envelope of human longevity.

What constitutes a healthy diet that is actually disease protecting versus one that is disease promoting? What degree of nutritional excellence is necessary to make a diet therapeutically disease reversing? How do we measure the quality of our diet or the degree of nutritional excellence we are obtaining?

Eat For Health answers these questions with logic and science. Dr. Fuhrman presents a well-researched , highly effective and long-lasting weight loss program. But more than that -- he helps you learn to judge the nutritional quality of your diet in order to discern whether it is optimal for delivering the therapeutic effects for disease reversal and prevention.

Joel Fuhrman M.D. is a board–certified family physician with a private practice in Flemington, New Jersey, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods.

If you want to live longer, reduce your need for medications, lose weight faster than you ever thought possible, and dramatically improve your health, you will want to read Dr. Fuhrman's book Eat For Health.




Eat to Live (paperback) is a New York Times Best Seller -- completely revised and updated) that will let you live longer, reduce your need for medications, and  improve your health dramatically. It is a book that will change the way you want to eat. Most importantly, if you follow the Eat To Live diet, you will lose weight faster than you ever thought possible and never gain it back.

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Area Attractions

We are members of The Hills of Headwaters Toursim Association. You will have plenty of time to enjoy this wonderful area when you are in Hockley Valley for your Coupl Intensive Retreat. We have copies of the HHTA's award-winning annual Visitor's Guides and pamphlets of the surrounding attractions. We encourage you to browse through the Hills of Headwaters site before you arrive here to learn about the natural beauty of the area and the many outdoor and cultural activities that draw people to this region throughout the year.