IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE SO HARD / Fedler & Friedman

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Author:

Joanne Fedler
Graeme Friedman

Date:

September 2012

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IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE SO HARD
The Secrets to Finding and Keeping Intimacy

Original Language: English
Territory: World

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« In this immensely helpful offering, authors Fedler and Friedman address the subject of intimacy and examine how past influences can negatively affect current relationships. »
— Publishers Weekly

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Joane Fedler and Graeme Friedman answer this question using their differing philosophies to help change the way you see yourself and how you think about long-term love. He’s grounded in rational Western psychological theory while she’s all over Eastern spiritual practice. Approaching the subject from two angles is what makes this book stand out from the pack. As do the fictionalized case studies they provide based on Graeme’s real patients.

We all want a happy ending but all around us, divorce statistics rocket as the hopes of lonely singles plummet. In an age of financial and political uncertainty, love is the only thing left to believe in. So why do we give up on it so easily?

The world we’re in is changing — the emerging confluence of neuroscience, quantum physics, psychology, democracy and spirituality means we have a chance to reconceptualize intimacy. There is no secret or formula to intimacy; it is freeform and each of us moves into it with our own bodies, rhythms and energy, like a dance.

Through interlocking stories that are moving, funny and all too familiar, Joanne and Graeme combine their years of personal and professional experience, in spite of their differences, to tackle the toughest of questions around intimacy.

Joanne Fedler graduated from Yale with a Masters of Law and is an ex- women’s rights advocate and law lecturer. Joanne is now a published author, journalist, inspirational speaker and writing mentor. She was born in South Africa and now lives in Sydney with her husband Zed, two teenagers and two cats.

Graeme Friedman is the author of two non-fiction books, various short stories, and a novel, The Fossil Artist (shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize). He has practiced as a clinical psychologist for over 25 years.

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