Augustus Y Napier

The Fragile Bond

In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage

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Produktbeschreibung

The Making of a Modern Marriage

This eloquent new book focuses on Dr. Augustus Napier's own marriage and on a group of vividly drawn cases to illustrate the obstacles we face within ourselves as we try to create intimate, equal, enduring modern marriages-- and to teach us ways to overcome those barriers.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780060915988
• ISBN-10: 0060915986
• Artikelnr.: 22008134

Autorenporträt

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.