The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage

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Harper Collins, Sep 7, 2010 - Family & Relationships - 432 pages
Focusing on the author's own marriage and on a group of case studies, this book vividly illustrates the obstacles married couples face today and offers help in overcoming them.
 

Contents

Introduction
Metaphors
A Way of Working
Finding a Theme
An Experience
Metaphors of Closeness and Distance
Metaphors of Power and Vulnerability
The WifeDominated Marriage
The Closeness Panic
Giving Birth
The Childhood Years
The Adolescent Years
Strategies of Change
Mens Work
Couples Work
Bibliography

The Insiders
The Outsiders
Choosing
An Identity Crisis
Acknowledgments
About the Author Copyright About the Publisher
Copyright

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The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate, and Enduring Marriage
Augustus Napier
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The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate, and Enduring Marriage
Augustus Napier
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Augustus Y. Napier, PhD
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About the author (2010)

Augustus Y. Napier was born in Decatur, Georgia, in 1938 and graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in English. After deciding to become a therapist through a personal therapy experience, he earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina. During an internship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he began to work with Dr. Whitaker as a student co-therapist, an experience which formed the basis of this book. Dr. Napier later served on the faculties of the Psychiatry Department and the Child and Family Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin. He now directs The Family Workshop, a family therapy training institute in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works frequently with his wife, Margaret, who is also a family therapist. A frequent consultant, he is the author of numerous papers and of The Fragile Bond, published by Harper & Row in 1988. The Napiers have three children.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage
AuthorAugustus Y. Napier, PhD
PublisherHarper Collins, 2010
ISBN0062026291, 9780062026293
Length432 pages
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