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Books like The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
The best books like The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work are The Dance of Anger, A General Theory of Love, and Emotional Intelligence. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver is about relationships, communication, conflict. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Dance of Anger
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Harriet Lerner · Psychology
Harriet Lerner's central argument is that anger is a signal, not a problem.
Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
Read the summary → - A General Theory of Love
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Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology
A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.
Both dig into relationships.
Read the summary → - Emotional Intelligence
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Daniel Goleman · Psychology
Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.
Both dig into emotional intelligence.
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- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett · Psychology
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist and psychologist at Northeastern University who has spent thirty years studying emotion, and her conclusion challenges the most widely held view of what emotions are.
A kindred psychology read.
Read the summary → - Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler · Self-help
Crucial Conversations is a book about what to do when the stakes are high, emotions run strong, and opinions diverge.
Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
Read the summary → - Difficult Conversations
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Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen · Business
Difficult Conversations is the product of the Harvard Negotiation Project, the same research group that produced Getting to Yes.
Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
Read the summary → - Fierce Conversations
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Susan Scott · Business
Fierce Conversations is Susan Scott's argument that the quality of your relationships is determined by the quality of your conversations — and that the conversations most people avoid are precisely the ones that would most improve their relationships and results.
Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
Read the summary → - Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Sue Johnson · Psychology
Hold Me Tight is Sue Johnson's accessible introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a model of couples therapy she developed over decades of clinical practice and research.
Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
Read the summary → - Humble Inquiry
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Edgar H. Schein · Business
Humble Inquiry is Edgar Schein's argument that the most important communication skill in leadership is the ability to ask questions in a genuinely curious, non-manipulative way — and that most organizational cultures systematically undervalue this skill in favor of telling, which creates problems both for individual relationships and for organizational safety and learning.
Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
Read the summary → - Leadership and Self-Deception
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The Arbinger Institute · Business
Leadership and Self-Deception is The Arbinger Institute's business fable about a leadership problem that most leaders don't recognize in themselves: the tendency to see other people as objects rather than as people.
Shares relationships and conflict with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
Read the summary → - Nonviolent Communication
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Marshall B. Rosenberg · Self-help
Nonviolent Communication is Marshall Rosenberg's framework for communicating in ways that preserve connection and address needs rather than triggering defensiveness.
Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
Read the summary → - Set Boundaries, Find Peace
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Nedra Glover Tawwab · Self-help
Set Boundaries, Find Peace is therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab's practical guide to identifying and communicating personal boundaries in work, family, friendship, and romantic relationships.
Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.
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Books like The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: quick answers
What are the best books like The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work?
The best books like The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver are The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, such as relationships, communication, conflict.
What should I read after The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work?
A natural next read after The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner. Shares relationships and communication with The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. Other strong choices are A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
What books are similar to The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver?
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work centers on relationships, communication, conflict. Books with a similar feel include The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
