{"product_id":"the-healing-connection-isbn-9780807029213","title":"The Healing Connection","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “wonderfully readable” study of the importance of human connection and \u003cb\u003ehow we form intimate relationships\u003c\/b\u003e, from two pioneering psychiatrists (\u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Healing Connection,\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author Jean Baker Miller, M.D., and Irene Stiver, Ph.D., argue that relationships are the integral source of psychological health. In so doing they offer a new understanding of human development that points a way to change in all of our institutions—work, community, school, and family—and is sure to transform lives.“Miller and Stiver give us a soaring new vision of what matters most in our lives—authentic and mutually enhancing relationships. . . .This is a wise and wonderful book about the deepest and most precious longings that we humans experience.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dance of Anger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Healing Connection\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome and long overdue synthesis and integration of the brilliant thinking of Jean Baker Miller, Irene Stiver and their colleagues at the Stone Center. . . . This book presents a quietly revolutionary shift in the basic theory of human development. . . . A fitting capstone to [the] brilliant and revolutionary \u003ci\u003eToward a New Psychology of Women\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alice C. Lawler, Ph.D.,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary Psychology Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “How we form and sustain intimate relationships through crises, frailties, betrayals, deep disagreements and long arid stretches. . . . A useful lens through which to view our atomistic culture and the therapeutic process.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Martha Manning,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Wonderfully readable . . . Miller and her colleague Irene Stiver (both legendary therapists and supervisors) have added chapter and verse documenting the importance of connection for women. . . . But whether you're a man or a woman, reading this book is almost as special as finding a really great therapist.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Alan Stone, M.D.,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A gem. . . . Pick up this very readable volume, and treat yourself to a book that is important to us, our patients, and the future of our society.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Marsha Pravder Mirkin, Ph.D.,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Feminist Family Therapy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJean Baker Miller, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and founding director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, a division of the Stone Center at Wellesley College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrene Pierce Stiver, Ph.D., is director emerita of the psychology department at McLean Hospital, lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a founding scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304483082469,"sku":"NP9780807029213","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807029213.jpg?v=1767739731","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-healing-connection-isbn-9780807029213","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}