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	Full Title:	Love Is Never Enough How Couples Can Overcome Misunderstanding, Resolve Conflicts, and Solve Relationship Problems Through Cognitive Therapy
	Author(s):	Aaron T. Beck, M.D.
	Publishing / Edition:	Harper Collins, 2010

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The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology
Dissolution of Marital Ties
What Is Needed To Sustain a Relationship
Untangling the Knots
The Plan of the Book

Chapter 1.

The Cognitive Approach
Mind Reading
The Invisible Mind
How We Misinterpret
Misreading the Signals
Symbols and Meaning
Bias

Chapter 2.

The Infatuation "Program"
The "Turn-Ons" (Activators)
Disappointment
Broken Promises
The Grand Reversal
Making Balanced Judgments

Chapter 3.

Open and Closed Perspectives
Framing
Conflicts of Personalities

Chapter 4.

Setting Expectations
Making the Rules
Applying the Rules
Rules That Sabotage
Enforcing the Rules
Tyranny of the Shoulds
Breaking the Rules
Punishment
Emergence of Rules
Dealing with Rules and Attitudes

Chapter 5.

Indirectness and Ambiguity
Defensiveness
Missing the Message
Monologues, Interruptions, and Silent Listening
Deaf Spots and Blind Spots
Differences in Pacing
Use of Questioning
Differences between the Sexes
Explanation for Differences in Style
Origin of the Sex Differences

Chapter 6.

Threats to the Marital Compact
Areas of Conflict

Chapter 7.

Secret Doubts
Origin of Doubts about Self and Spouse
The Secret Shoulds

Chapter 8.

How Symbolic Meanings Twist Our Thinking
The Spreading Factor
Examples of Typical Cognitive Distortions
Mental Distortions in Action

Chapter 9.

Barbed Messages
Preemptive Strikes
Overkill
Behind the Fights: Basic Beliefs
Controlling Anger
Inhibition, Anger, and Self-Assertion
The Anatomy of Anger

Chapter 10.

Resistances to Making Changes
What Should Be Changed?
Creating Problems Instead of Solving Them
Redefining the Problem
How Do People Change?
A Program for Change

Chapter 11.

Cooperation
Commitment
Basic Trust
Assuming Good Will
The Benefit of the Doubt
Loyalty and Fidelity

Chapter 12.

Loving and Being Loved
Keeping Track of Positive Behavior
Lifting the Blinders

Chapter 13.

General Guidelines
The Nine Steps

Chapter 14.

Pinpointing Problems in Communication
Rules of Conversational Etiquette

Chapter 15.

Explanation of Differences
Use of Questioning
Flexibility
Compromise
Accommodation
Setting Priorities

Chapter 16.

Clarification of Differences
Understanding Your Mate's Perspective
Specific Rules for Troubleshooting Sessions

Chapter 17.

Source of the Problem: You or Your Mate?
Gains and Losses from Expressing Anger
Defusing Hostility in Your Mate

Chapter 18.

Reduction of Sexual Desire
Self-Therapy for Sex Problems
Infidelity
Stress
Two-Job Families
Problems in Remarriage

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