Love's Journey: The Seasons and Stages of Relationship - Softcover

Michael Gurian is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Wonder of Boys (Tarcher, 1996). He is a family therapist, corporate consultant, lecturer, and founder of the Gurian Institute. Michael has served as a consultant to families, corporations, therapists, physicians, school districts, community agencies, churches, criminal justice personnel and other professionals, traveling to approximately thirty cities per year to keynote at conferences. He is the author of twenty-five books.

While professing to be a guidebook for the journey of love, the route laid out here is one of brambles, fog, and lost directions. It is unclear whether this book is intended to be a self-improvement guide, a relationship builder, or a gathering of international mythology. Whatever its intent, none is achieved. Gurian, a therapist who leads workshops on intimate partnership, presents his theories in stages and seasons, beginning each section with a mythological tale. He then interweaves the tale with explanations of the seasons and their impact on people and their relationships, resulting in a jumble of people and situations, real and imaginary. The author further muddies the waters with the excessive use of "he/she" and other compound pronouns. Not recommended.?Priscilla Davis Dann, Gates Mills P.L., Cleveland
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