Description: A "wonderfully readable" study of the importance of human connection and how we form intimate relationships, from two pioneering psychiatrists (Psychiatric Times)
In The Healing Connection, best-selling author Jean Baker Miller, M.D., and Irene Stiver, Ph.D., argue that relationships are the integral source of psychological health. In so doing they offer a new understanding of human development that points a way to change in all of our institutions--work, community, school, and family--and is sure to transform lives.Review Quotes: "Miller and Stiver give us a soaring new vision of what matters most in our lives--authentic and mutually enhancing relationships. . . .This is a wise and wonderful book about the deepest and most precious longings that we humans experience."
--Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger
--Alice C. Lawler, Ph.D., Contemporary Psychology Journal
"How we form and sustain intimate relationships through crises, frailties, betrayals, deep disagreements and long arid stretches. . . . A useful lens through which to view our atomistic culture and the therapeutic process."
--Martha Manning, New York Times Book Review
"Wonderfully readable . . . Miller and her colleague Irene Stiver (both legendary therapists and supervisors) have added chapter and verse documenting the importance of connection for women. . . . But whether you're a man or a woman, reading this book is almost as special as finding a really great therapist."
--Alan Stone, M.D., Psychiatric Times "A gem. . . . Pick up this very readable volume, and treat yourself to a book that is important to us, our patients, and the future of our society."
--Marsha Pravder Mirkin, Ph.D., Journal of Feminist Family Therapy