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Title: Go to the Source, Dr. David Schnarch's Passionate Marriage
Review: I think Ms. Ward would be an excellent therapist. She is deeply caring and undeniably well-intended, and certainly the principles in her book are far more sound than in most marital self-help books. But alas, she is not a good writer: not well-organized, not terribly clear, with some tendency to hop around. Few such books are written really well, but this is exceptionally clunky. Better go to the source: Dr. David Schnarch's extraordinary Passionate Marriage. She credits him in her acknowledgement ("After my first workshop with him in 1992 I felt like I needed to put a 'Closed for Remodeling' sign on my door." ---but not, in my view, nearly enough. The concepts are his. Basically, this is a well-intended, less articulate, somewhat dumbed-down, short-course version of Passionate Marriage. I guess its hominess and lack of sophistication might appeal to some --- didn't do it much for me.
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