Creating Connection: A Relational-Cultural Approach with Couples - Paperback

by Judith V. Jordan (Editor), Jon Carlson (Editor)

This book helps readers understand the pain of disconnection and to use Relational-Cultural Therapy to heal relationships in a variety of settings, including with heterosexual couples, lesbian and gay couples, and mixed race couples. Readers will note a blending of approaches used to change the cultural conditions that can contribute to problems. Polarities of "you vs. me" will be replaced with the healing concept of "us."

Author Biography

Judith V. Jordan, PhD, ABPP in Clinical Psychology, is the Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She is a founding scholar of Relational-Cultural Theory.

Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP, is Distinguished Professor in the Division of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University, and a psychologist at the Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.