Renewing Your Relationship - Olsen, David

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Résumé :
Renewing Your Relationship: 5 Necessary Steps Renewing Your Relationship: 5 Necessary Steps is a practical, easy-to-read workbook for couples interested in working together on their relationship as well as individuals attempting to understand their most intimate connections. In fact, couples therapists David Olsen and Erin Belanger-Freeh base Renewing Your Relationship in the most fundamental component of relationships: the self. Step one is changing oneself and one's role in a relationship. This guide is a summary of the techniques and principles Olsen and Belanger-Freeh use in their sessions with couples and individuals seeking to increase intimacy and break counterproductive patterns. Drawing heavily on the principles of Bowen Family systems theory, the therapists encourage readers to identify and change interactional patterns that block intimacy and satisfaction, such as pursue-distance or over/under-responsible patterns. By the end of the book, readers are able to use the powerful concept of differentiation to see real change in their love lives.

Biographie:
Unfolding Origami (80pp, 2015) won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award, and Past Imperfect, his second full-length poetry collection, is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press. Exit Wounds is David's fourth poetry chapbook. Previous chapbooks include Sailing to Atlantis (Finishing Line Press, 2013), New World Elegies (Finishing Line Press, 2011), and Greatest Hits (Pudding Publications, 2001). Since 2012 he has placed work with Blueline, Lunch Ticket, Vermont Literary Review, The Aurorean, Pinyon, Pilgrimage, Pedestal, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, San Pedro River Review, Turtle Island Quarterly, California State Poetry Society Poetry Letter, Scintilla, Strong Voices, Touch: The Journal of Healing, Poetry and Business, Cyclamens and Swords, Ash & Bones, Devilfish Review, Wordgathering, Pyrokinection, and anthologies from Main Street Rag (2), Concrete Wolf, Mutabilis, TulipTree, WaterWood, Blue Lyra, San Francisco Peace and Hope (2), and Kind of a Hurricane Press (3) (US); Acumen, Envoi, Poetry News, South, The Interpreter's House, Frogmore Papers, Orbis, Prole, Proletarian Poetry, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, The Journal, Lunar Poetry, London Journal of Fiction, SAW Poetry, The Dawntreader, Gold Dust, The Stare's Nest, Morphrog, and anthologies from Cinnamon Press (5), Templar Poetry (2), Belgrave Press, University of London's Human Rights Consortium, Albion Beatnik (2), Theatre Cloud (2), and Babel (UK); Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria); The French Literary Review (France); ROPES (Ireland); The Deronda Review (Israel/US); and an academic anthology from Sense (Netherlands). A poet and playwright with a BA in chemistry from University of California-Berkeley and an MA in creative writing from San Francisco State University, David was formerly an energy economist, management consultant, and performing arts critic. He has lived in Oxford since 2002.