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Passionate Marriage: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationships (平装)
by David Schnarch, Ph.D.
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Marriage, Relationships, Self-help |
| Market price: ¥ 178.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Packed with ground-breaking concepts and information that will lead couples to new ways of thinking, this book will benefit couples in achieving committed relationships and sex. |
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Jon Lindon (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-08 00:00>
This book represents a milestone in both the fields of marital therapy and sex therapy. While it is not known or generally realized by most people, sex therapy and marital therapy have developed as separate disciplines with a totally different set of theoretical concepts and methods. In this book, which is based on Schnarch's first book, The Sexual Crucible, Schnarch dares to suggest that in fact, one's sex life might actually improve if one's marital life improves.
And, further, he notes that this improvement in both the marital life and the sex life is not dependent on either one, but is in fact, a function of the "self-differentiation" of the individual person himself. This does not belie the present day concepts of both marital therapy and sex therapy totally, but it does mostly. Schnarch beautifully demonstrates to the reader, in a "lingo" that is very vernacular in nature, suitable for any enlightened reader to grasp his meaning, how the search for personal self-definition and identity, in fact allows one to relate in a deeper and more meaningful way to the one to whom you have made a lifetime commitment. In fact, most of the concepts in Schnarch's book may be able to be generalized to most any relationship. That is to say, that people who are more self-assured, self-developed, and/or "self-differentiated", to use Schnarch's term, can communicate in more effective and meaningful manners. If one sees sexual intimacy as a manner of intimate communication, more than just a process of procreation, then it only follows logically that a more "self-differentiated" person, or better yet, two of them together, can communicate in a manner not heretofore experienced in the sexual forum.
Schnarch takes this to its conceptual limits by outright stating that two people who are deeply committed to one another can reach a state, almost bordering Nirvana, if not there itself, through sexuality. In a sense, I felt the book represented a reading of D.H. Lawrence for the unititiated, in that Lawrence preached and wrote about physical, spiritual, emotional and intellectual renewal through sexual intimacy. In his book, Dr. Schnarch takes Lady Chatterley's Lover from the ephemeral to the mundane, and then back again. While a true reading of this book can create a window upon oneself that is not always pretty, the point of Schnarch's concept is to promote growth. Any person who has experienced intense personal growth realizes that it comes with a price, and the price is often highly emotional. I would highly recommend the book to anyone looking to find a more meaningful balance to their lives, particularly people who believe they have a good marriage, as this book will only serve to enhance that feeling and bring that communication to new pinnacles of intimacy.
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