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The Universal Heart: Golden Rules For Successful Relationships
Author(s): Stephanie Dowrick (Author)
- Publisher: Michael Joseph
- Publication Date: 31 Jan. 2002
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 0718145089
- ISBN-13: 9780718145088
Book Description
The only book on relationships you will ever need, combining the finest inspiration with the most practical support. Stephanie Dowrick explores not just our most intimate relationships, but also the other key relationships of our life – with family,friends, children, ex-partners, colleagues and people in our everyday world. She invites us to discover the power we have to create relationships built on a rich, generous and inclusive idea of love.
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Review
Psychotherapist Dowrick’s Golden Rules for Successful Relationships (her subtitle) explores love as an endlessly self-replenishing resource available to all who practice giving and receiving it more freely. Although dauntingly wordy (with reams of ‘how to’ advice at the end of each chapter and case histories within), it is a worthwhile and stimulating volume filled with therapeutic insights and common sense. Its subheadings make it more manageable to dip into: why abandonment is devastating, for example, or the aggression which blights lives. Its constant message is to roll away the illusions of our own helplessness and cultivate self-love and love of others.
About the Author
Stephanie Dowrick is a psychotherapist and has published several non-fiction works – INTIMACY AND SOLITUDE, FORGIVENESS AND OTHER ACTS OF LOVE, and DAILY ACTS OF LOVE, as well as fiction. She founded The Women’s Press and is still Chair. She lives in Australia.
