Stephen Goldbart, Ph.D., and David Wallin, Ph.D., are psychologists who practice and teach psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Marin Psychotherapy Institute in Mill Valley, California, and the Solano Center in Albany, California.
For thousands of years love was compared to the sickness which only
one doctor—the beloved—can cure. Drs. Goldbart and Walling see love
as a journey and have provided a map where the danger points on
this journey are brightly illuminated. I believe that their
warnings are on the mark and lovers attempting the journey as well
as professionals dealing with love will profit from this book.
*Martin S. Bergmann, Ph.D., New York University, author of The
Anatomy of Loving*
Do we really need another book on love? For me, the answer is: Yes,
if that book is Mapping the Terrain of the Heart. Goldbart and
Wallin identify six capacities necessary for participation in a
passionate, tender, and enduring couple relationship. They provide
compelling and readable case illustrations, showing how success or
mismatch occurs with respect to each capacity. Mapping the Terrain
of the Heart presents an analysis of what makes or breaks love that
will interest not only mental-health professionals, but anyone who
has ever tried to find and stay with a significant other.
*Owen Renik, M.D., editor-in-chief, Psychoanalytic Quarterly*
I have given this book to dozens of my friends. Its extraordinary
combination of hard-won psychoanalytic insight, clarity of writing,
and heartful patience with the human condition make Mapping the
Terrain of the Heart the most useful book I know of for
understanding the challenges of romantic relationships.
*Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind*
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