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THE SECRET PATHWAY TO THE HEART OF YOUR BELOVED AWAITS.
Join me and listen through my ears. After 40 years of sitting as a counselor with couples in conflict, you can listen with me to the inner dreams of men and women. People are literally dying suicide, accidents, diminished health, professional suicide, financial ruin in their longing for that magical moment when that special person mirrors back one's deepest internal longings. People are so starved for love, when it appears, they will risk everything--sometimes even to the death. The secret pathway that opens the heart of one's beloved is waiting. It is the most powerful force in the world. The door to the journey to the heart is open and waiting for you.
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Geoffrey Chaucer was right: "What a woman wants most:" A monograph on the "The Wife of the Baths" from The Canterbury Tales. What is it that women want most?

The need most often expressed by women in over thirty years of couples counseling.

Somehow a man must communicate that he is more insterested in listening to her than she is in talking.

In over thirty years of couples counseling, the need most often expressed by men.

Aliexithymia: a big word that means that men have no words for feelings.

The mother/son duality, dichotomy, tension, and conflict carried in to marriage.

Wounds from the womb, and the first year of life lasts forever.Robin Karr-Mores.

Men who haven't finished the separation drama with their mothers work it on the women in their lives.

The non-synchronicity between men and women: The war between the sexes.

The tragedy of threats to terminate parental rights and relationships.

It is always discovery oriented.
It is always expressed in low, slow, soft, and easy communication style. Positive discipline is always positive.

We are the walking wounded. All the disappointments, hurts, and losses throughout our lives that went ungrieved and unacknowledged are wounds. Each unhealed wound keeps us from ourselves, keeps us from feeling our emotions folly, and pushes us farther down the road to emptiness, aloneness, and addictive behaviors (Steven Farmer).

The trauma of premature separation from mother's all-loving cocoon of safety becomes a "Paradise Lost" for boys.... It becomes a shame-based hardening process.... through which boys are shamed into suppressing their empathic and vulnerable sides. It begins as early as the first months of a little boy's life as a narrowing of emotional expressiveness and then continues [throughout the boy's life] right through manhood. It is a lifelong process (William Pollack).

The "father wound" is deep and lasting. [Blockage] of the desperate drive for contact and closeness with the father results in a bottomless fury that manifests destructively in work and family life (Ronald Levant).

Empathy has been defined as the: ability share in anothers emotions, thoughts, or feelings. Empathy has been equated with emotional intelligence and may be more important than IQ. Carl Rogers popularized the concept in his non-directive therapy and stated that empathy was an ability to: perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meaning which pertain thereto as an ability if one were the person. Carl Rogers launched the original interest in empathic therapy that was prominent during the 1960s and early 1970s. During this time there was a great deal of research activity regarding Carl Rogers' hypothesis that three therapeutic conditionsunconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuinenesswere necessary and sufficient causes for therapeutic change. A manual of 15 pages.

From every quarter there is the competing and antithetical posturing of ideas and therefore the competing and antithetical posturing of the people who hold those ideas. Is there no template, paradigm, or formula that will enable competitors to spend more energy seeking a ground of commonality?
This study is an attempt to draw a sampling from the writers who have sought to find the bridges for the seeming antithetical ideas, stances, and positions. Analytical thinking can always find a hair to split and another hair (split or not) to place in bold juxtaposition or opposition. The legitimate aims of science serve the analytical process well. However, when every hair has been split all the splits still exist and find their relevance within the unified field. It is the field that gives each part it's meaning. The need for solutions to human problems requires a greater effort in finding synthesis among ideas and positions that will more fruitfully lead to a unifying consensus. (71 pages)

AFFECT THERAPY THEORY Despite our view of ourselves as thinking beings, cognition is but a frail craft floating on a sea of emotion. Donald Nathanson. The problem in therapy is always how to move from an ineffectual intellectual appreciation of a truth about oneself to some emotional experience if it. It is only when therapy enlists deep emotions that it becomes a powerful force for change. Yalom, I. The aim of every moment in every session is to put the patient in touch with as much of his true feelings as he can bear. Malan, D. Therapy is derived from the Greek therapia. It carries the idea of healing, wholeness, or health. Healing what? Affect Therapy Theory presumes that humans are organismically or physiologically based. Whatever is going on with a person is rooted in the physiology in the body, in the emotions of the person. In the development of individuals numerous transitional phases or hurdles must be traversed. Most did not negotiate those stages artfully, and the result is developmental stage specific wounds. Healing lifes wounds is the potential and promise of all relationships.