3/04/09

Bring Yourself to Love: Part Two

Mona Barbera PhD

Show Description:

DOT TO DOT: CREATING GLOBAL COMMUNITY

BRING YOURSELF TO LOVE: PART TWO

With author, Dr. Mona Barbera
Why is it often so hard to connect with the person you love? Have you repeatedly tried to change your partner, but it never worked? Why is it that so often we long for love and that deep sense of connection to a special person and yet find failure and lonliness time and time again. What is it that we don't see, or are missing? Is it coming from the outside? Do our social traditions and patterns of behavior keep us separated from true intimacy? If love is the center of all things, spiritual, physical, emotional, then why does it seem so difficult to find and keep. Come join Catherine Bradford as she welcomes Mona Barbera, PhD as she discusses her new book, "Bring Yourself to Love: How Couple Can Turn Disconnection Into Intimacy".
Dr. Barbera is a licensed psychologist practicing in Boston, MA and Providence, RI. She specializes in couples therapy, and provides workshops for couples and for couples therapists. She is an Assistant for Internal Family Systems.

http://www.loving-relationship-information.com

Guest Bio:
Dr. Barbera is a licensed psychologist practicing in Boston, MA and Providence, RI. She specializes in couples therapy, and provides workshops for couples and for couples therapists. She is an Assistant for Internal Family Systems. After a few years as a struggling actress, she received her B.A. in psychology from Antioch West, her M.Ed. from the University of Vermont, and her Ph.D. from New York University. She has written academic articles on couples for publication including The Journal of Imago Relationship Therapy and The Journal of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and a chapter in Imago Relationship Therapy: Perspectives on Theory, by Luguet, Hannah and Hunt. She is the past chair of the program committee and past board member of the New England Society for the Study and Treatment of Trauma and Dissociative Disorders. She lives in Boston with her husband.