Giving The Love That Heals

Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to healthy, loving relationships in hisNew York TimesbestsellersGetting the Love You WantandKeeping the Love You Find.Now, with his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, he brings us to a new understanding of the most profound love of all -- by helping parents nurture their own development as they encourage emotional wholeness in their children.This groundbreaking book offers a unique opportunity for personal transformation: by resolving issues that originated in our own childhood, we can achieve a conscious, and thus healthier, relationship with our children, regardless of their age. Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt help us explore: TheImago-- the fantasy partner that our unconscious mind constructs from those we loved as a child, a that has guided our search for a life partner MaximizerandMinimizerparents -- the defensive styles that internally shape what we say and how interact with our children AParenting Processthat helps to end the "cycle of wounding" -- the handing-down of wounding we received as children -- as we raise our own children Safety, Support, and Structure-- how to give children what they really need from us Modeling Adulthood-- using our healed sense of self as a model for our children.With other practical, insightful approaches that can powerfully shape the parent-child bond,Giving the Love that Healsgives us the keys to helping our children to become healthy, responsible, and caring people.

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., has spent more than thirty years as an educator and therapist, specializing in working with couples, teaching marital therapy to therapists, and conducting couples workshops across the country. Dr. Hendrix is the cocreator, with his wife, Helen Hunt, of Imago Relationship Therapy, which is known and practiced internationally; and the cofounder and president of the Institute for Imago Relationship Therapy based in Winter Park, Florida. He is the author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, and Keeping the Love You Find: A Guide for Singles, and has coauthored, with Helen, The Personal Companion: Meditations and Exercises for Keeping the Love You Find and The Couples Companion: Meditations and Exercises for Getting the Love You Want.

INTRODUCTION
I - Connection
1 A World of Connections
2 The Imago Family
II - Rupture of Connection
3 The Unconscious Parent
4 The Child as Teacher
III - Restoration of Connection
5 Intentional Dialogue
6 The Conscious Parent
7 Growing Yourself Up
IV - Discover Your Child
The Conscious Parent's Pledge
An Overview
8 The Stage of Attachment
9 The Stage of Exploration
10 The Stage of Identity
11 The Stage of Competence
12 The Stage of Concern
13 The Stage of Intimacy
V - Creation of a New Legacy
14 The Possibilities for a Conscious Future
VI - Tools for Conscious Parenting
15 Changing Knowledge into Action
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX