Your struggles are not meaningless: You are capable of building a marriage that is far better than the ones you've seen so far. Drawing on their combined 30 years' clinical experience in couples/family therapy and child/family mental health, husband-and-wife team Nadigel and Israel offer innovative tools and strategies, based on Family Systems Theory. You’ll learn to: • use the Self In Relationship Inventory (SIRI) to identify how and where you get stuck in your relationships • build a family diagram to reveal the multi-generational patterns getting in your way • practice the SPACE process for bringing your best self into any relationship For use with a therapist or on your own, and whether you're currently single, dating, engaged or already married, It Takes More Than Love is your guide to creating a loving and lasting committed relationship. Reviews: "I sincerely, wholeheartedly love this book… Almost every time I thought something should be added it came up in the next section!" — Lorna Hecht, marriage and family therapist About the Authors: Aliza T. Israel, MD, FRCPC is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Women's College Hospital, and lecturer at the University of Toronto in the divisions of Equity, Gender and Population Mental Health as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Avrum Nadigel, MSW, is a marriage and family therapist, and author of Learning to Commit: The Best Time to Work on Your Marriage is When You’re Single. He holds a Masters of Social Work from McGill University, a Bachelors of Commerce from Concordia University, and postgraduate training in Bowen Theory from the Western Pennsylvania Family Center. |