What Predicts Divorce? : The Relationship Between Marital Processes and Marital Outcomes

"With a new preface by the Gottman Institute Clinical Director, Dr. Don Cole, and Research Director, Carrie Cole, this Classic Edition of the landmark text, What Predicts Divorce?, reveals to a new generation years of research involving questionnaires and observations of married couples in pursuit of the determinants of both marital happiness and divorce. It is essential reading for all family and clinical psychologists, as well as therapists working with couples in relationship counselling. John Mordecai Gottman is an American psychological researcher and clinician who did extensive work over four decades on divorce prediction and marital stability. He is known for his work on marital stability and relationship analysis through scientific direct observations, many of which were published in peer-reviewed literature. Gottman is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington. Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman co-founded and lead a relationship company and therapist training entity called The Gottman Institute"--