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  • The High-Conflict Couple

  • A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation
  • By: Alan E. Fruzzetti PhD
  • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
  • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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The High-Conflict Couple

By: Alan E. Fruzzetti PhD
Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
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Summary

You hear and read a lot about ways to improve your relationship. But if you've tried these without much success, you're not alone. Many highly reactive couples - pairs that are quick to argue, anger, and blame - need more than just the run-of-the-mill relationship advice to solve their problems in love. When destructive emotions are at the heart of problems in your relationship, no amount of effective communication or intimacy building will fix what ails it. If you're part of a high-conflict couple, you need to get control of your emotions first, to stop making things worse, and only then work on building a better relationship.

The High-Conflict Couple adapts the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into skills you can use to tame out-of-control emotions that flare up in your relationship. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, you'll learn how to deescalate angry situations before they have a chance to explode into destructive fights. You'll discover ways to manage problems with negotiation, not conflict, and to find true acceptance and closeness with the person you love the most.

©2006 Alan E. Fruzzetti (P)2016 Tantor
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Critic reviews

"Fruzzetti's focused use of the specialized dialectical behavior therapy makes his book unique in the couples-therapy field and recommends it for larger public libraries." ( Library Journal)

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Annoying narration

Who needs to be referred to diagram numbers in a narrated book? Narrator robotic and don’t need all the referrals to other books during a chapter

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Excellent content spoilt by poor narration

Although content was really what I needed to know about, the awful narration made it very difficult to listen to, which was really dissapointing.

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An insightful approach

I enjoyed this book and found it insightful and useful. my only reservation and the reason it didn't get 5 stars is the fact that it doesn't make it really clear that if a couple are trying to find solutions to habitual conflict they should only ever this program if both are committed to the same outcome and both follow the program.

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MY FAVOURITE BOOK ON AMAZON!!!!

I absolutely love this book. It is one of my absolute favourite books. It talks about conflict resolution and validation in a couple. I LOVE IT!! I will hear it again.

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Narrator ruined this for me

Despite the interesting topic, I have had to resort to buying the physical book version as the narrators voice was so grating. She was robotic to say the least. Very very disappointing

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