Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples
Recent relationship science research finds that intense, satisfying romantic love is a real phenomenon occurring in couples. Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples provides the field of marriage and family therapy with the first model for assisting couples to sustain bliss for a lifetime. The voltage concept, based on over forty years of clinical research, uses a skills-based approach from Anthetic Relationship Therapy. By providing psychodynamic skills for facilitating each partner’s psychological growth, the psychological infrastructure is then achieved for supporting optimal relating skills. The voltage concept presents a useful dichotomy of closeness levels to which partners aspire. Couples who want a more surface relationship fit a
Low-Voltage Relationship model marked by less emotional intensity. With such couples, minimal skills can be taught to reduce any conflict that brought them to therapy.
High-Voltage couples desire great emotional depth and receive skills to help them achieve it. Perhaps even more valuable, the voltage vocabulary equips clinicians and partners in understanding a common source of couple conflict; that is, the voltage mismatch. The book offers options for treatment when a voltage discrepancy exists in the couple.
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Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples
Recent relationship science research finds that intense, satisfying romantic love is a real phenomenon occurring in couples. Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples provides the field of marriage and family therapy with the first model for assisting couples to sustain bliss for a lifetime. The voltage concept, based on over forty years of clinical research, uses a skills-based approach from Anthetic Relationship Therapy. By providing psychodynamic skills for facilitating each partner’s psychological growth, the psychological infrastructure is then achieved for supporting optimal relating skills. The voltage concept presents a useful dichotomy of closeness levels to which partners aspire. Couples who want a more surface relationship fit a
Low-Voltage Relationship model marked by less emotional intensity. With such couples, minimal skills can be taught to reduce any conflict that brought them to therapy.
High-Voltage couples desire great emotional depth and receive skills to help them achieve it. Perhaps even more valuable, the voltage vocabulary equips clinicians and partners in understanding a common source of couple conflict; that is, the voltage mismatch. The book offers options for treatment when a voltage discrepancy exists in the couple.
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Overview

Recent relationship science research finds that intense, satisfying romantic love is a real phenomenon occurring in couples. Creating Optimal Relationships: Use of the Voltage Concept with Couples provides the field of marriage and family therapy with the first model for assisting couples to sustain bliss for a lifetime. The voltage concept, based on over forty years of clinical research, uses a skills-based approach from Anthetic Relationship Therapy. By providing psychodynamic skills for facilitating each partner’s psychological growth, the psychological infrastructure is then achieved for supporting optimal relating skills. The voltage concept presents a useful dichotomy of closeness levels to which partners aspire. Couples who want a more surface relationship fit a
Low-Voltage Relationship model marked by less emotional intensity. With such couples, minimal skills can be taught to reduce any conflict that brought them to therapy.
High-Voltage couples desire great emotional depth and receive skills to help them achieve it. Perhaps even more valuable, the voltage vocabulary equips clinicians and partners in understanding a common source of couple conflict; that is, the voltage mismatch. The book offers options for treatment when a voltage discrepancy exists in the couple.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442238107
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/30/2015
Pages: 230
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

James Elliott, PhD, created Anthetic Therapy and Anthetic Relationship Therapy and founded the Anthetics Institute in Berkeley, California and Lafayette, Louisiana

Kathryn Elliott, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT, is director of Anthetic Therapy Center.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1What Is the High-Voltage Relationship
Chapter 2A New Psychology as the Foundation for the High-Voltage Relationship
Chapter 3The Inner Critic and Its Sabotaging Effects on Relationships
Chapter 4Using the Anthetic Inner Figure Language
Chapter 5 What It Takes to Create a High-Voltage Relationship: The Anthetic Values
Chapter 6Eight Intrapersonal High-Voltage Skills
Chapter 7Nine Skills to Empower the Self for Optimal Relating
Chapter 8 Creating Connection: The Interpersonal High-Voltage Communication Skills
Chapter 9Interpersonal Skills for Handling Negativity in Relationships
Chapter 10Increasing the Voltage: Depth Connecting Skills
Chapter 11Handling the Voltage Mismatch
Chapter 12 Maintenance Skills: High-Voltage for a Lifetime
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