Relationship Rescue

Relationship Rescue is a self-help book that deals with ways to improve your personal relationships through examples and exercises.

Fast Facts

1. Author: Dr. Phil McGraw
2. Genre: Self-Help
3. Publication Date: 2000
4. Publisher: Hyperion
5. Pages: 272
6. ISBN 0-7868-8598-X
7. Companion to Relationship Rescue Workbook

Synopsis

Dr. Phil states that people are responsible for whatever state their relationship may be in and that it is their responsibility to rescue it. He then discusses his seven-step strategy to help partners reconnect with each other.

Critical Reception

1. "Oprah's relationship expert and the author of the hugely popular Life Strategies, McGraw offers a challenge to readers in troubled marriages. (Though he refers to "relationships," his comments about the roles of men and women make it obvious that McGraw has mostly traditional marriages in mind.) With typical frankness, the Dallas psychologist declares that the underlying reason that "your relationship is in trouble [is] because you set it up that way."" Publishers Weekly
2. "McGraw does a wonderful job of examining practical steps that can help to rescue floundering intimate relationships. From the beginning, he acknowledges that only one partner may be inspired to take the action he recommends. He says the core causes of relationship collapse include believing in relationship myths; failing to take personal responsibility for the relationship; and ignoring one's own "core consciousness" (i.e., that which is integral to one's own belief systems)". Library Journal

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