Thanks for your response
Thanks for the responses.
Ursusminor, I wanted you to know I have a call into Nicole now.
CathyC,
I thought I would simply provide my synopsis, as follows:
The Insightful Marriage: What You Really Need to Know and Do to Live Happily Ever After is a crucial read for anyone who is married, getting married, or considering marriage again. Based on sound psychology and road tested clinical practice, The Insightful Marriage uses the stories of actual couples to bring readers to an insightful understanding of the psychological realities of marriage as they actually play out in our contemporary society. In marked comparison to its theoretically orphaned and naively descriptive competition, The Insightful Marriage is firmly grounded in psychological science and capitalizes on the fascinating allure people feel when they find answers to the important explanatory “why questions” which they always ask about their marriage and themselves. Informative and engaging, this “insight therapy in a book” details the ignored psychological fact that people are much more likely to reflexively protect their self than their happy relationship when their self is threatened as it often is in marriage. By bringing readers to this and other important personal and marital insights, The Insightful Marriage teaches people what they really need to know and do to defeat their automatic reactions to the subtle but powerful destructive forces found in all marriages so they do not unwittingly sabotage their conscious desire to find the happiest marriage ever.
Though a fascinating self-exploratory venture, the appeal of The Insightful Marriage is not limited to the allure of the “aha experience.” Using hands on exercises based on tried and true psychological wisdom, The Insightful Marriage goes beyond insight and helps readers translate their new found awareness into their marriage so they can really live happily ever after. It is the ability of The Insightful Marriage to provide tangible benefits to people struggling with marriage in a world in which half of marriages end in divorce, affairs are more common than ever, divorce occurs even after long marriages, marital satisfaction has steadily declined for decades and marital self help does not seem to be working, that makes The Insightful Marriage such a compelling read. It is because The Insightful Marriage is like nothing that has come before it, and departs radically from the five categories in which all existing marital self help live, that it actually lives up to the promise of its title.
Because The Insightful Marriage is based on sound psychology and years of clinical practice its appeal extends beyond that of a stimulating and informative personal or book club read. It is, in fact, a book which will also enjoy broad sales to professional counselors seeking a bibliotherapy component for their therapy, religious organizations which want to provide congregants with a premarital or marital counseling resource, and professors in academic settings who are looking for required supplemental reading for students in marital or couples counseling classes.
So, Cathy, I hope this helps. I would add to this that I am a Professor and teach Clinical Psycyhology, and a Clinical Psychologist with 28 years experience. While I have past media experience, I have done little with the media over the last ten years.
Any insight from you would be greatly appreciated.
