In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach To Diagnosis And Treatment In Couples Therapy by Zeig (Foreword), Ellyn Bader (5-Oct-1999) Hardcover
In Quest of the Mythical Mate presents a valuable and fertile developmental model for diagnosing and treating couples that is flexible enough to incorporate a wide variety of intervention strategies, yet purposeful enough to give a clear sense of direction to couples in distress. As such, this volume provides a powerful therapeutic approach for all professionals who treat couples.
It's an interesting look at developmental stages of couples and how to help them become more developmentally mature to make it as a couple. I liked the examples they used and the assessment tools that they share.
I like this approach and how they classified couples as having conflicts because of different developmental stages. Will probably use it in the future if I work with couples.