Author and professor of psychology John Gottman and his colleague Neil Jacobson on this edition of
Fresh Air. Gottman is the author of the new book
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. He is the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over thecourse of many years. Jacobson was a pioneer in the scientific study of marital therapy. He and Gottman co-authored
When Men Batter Women based on their decade of research with 200 couples in which they observed the arguments of severely violent couples. Their research shatters a couple of myths: that women batter too, and that women often provoke meninto battering them.
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