[alt.recovery] Book on Relationships?

fred@wrs.wrs.com (Fred Kline) (01/17/90)

Can someone recommend a book on relationships.
Preferably comparing dysfunctional relationships
to healthy relationships, and some guidelines
on how to distinguish between the two.

thanks,


Fred Kline  sun!wrs!fred  or  fred@wrs.com

anne@fate.eng.buffalo.edu (Anne Pfohl) (01/18/90)

In article <829@wrs.wrs.com> fred@wrs.wrs.com (Fred Kline) writes:
>Can someone recommend a book on relationships.

One I can think of off the top of my head is _Stage_II_Relationships_ by
Earnie Larsen.  It is geared towards recovering people who want to have
healthy, fulfilling intimate relationships.  I got a lot of practical
help from it.

He doesn't necessarily compare dysfunctional and healthy or functional
relationships. but I found that, in reading about his ideas of healthy
relationships, I could see I hadn't had any that looked like what he was
describing.  So, I could see ways to change my behavior and thinking
that would help me.

>
>Fred Kline  sun!wrs!fred  or  fred@wrs.com


Anne
anne@fate.eng.buffalo.edu

tg0r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Terilyn Gillespie) (01/18/90)

Struggle for Intimacy, by  Janet Wolitz(?).   My sister sent me this
book several years ago--it was what helped me understand  why I was
having the problems I have.  It discusses the problems ACOA's often
encounter in their relationships.  Don't know if this is what you have
in mind, but you may want to check it out anyway.

Terilyn Gillespie
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