Elizabeth R. (esjro) - , reviewed on 4/28/2014 + 905 more book reviews

I tried to like this book, I really, really did! The premise is interesting: a journalist sits in on a year's worth of couples therapy group sessions. Indeed the sections in which she describes the five couples in the group and their interactions in therapy are interesting, as is the dynamics of the group.

However, interspersed with descriptions of the group sessions are segues about different philosophies of marriage counseling, and profiles of the originators of the different schools of thought. These sections are dry and go into an academic level of detail that is inconsistent with the novelistic tone of the rest of the book. The transitions between recounts of the therapy sessions and history of psychoanalysis for couples are jarring.

This book does have some interesting content, but I wish it flowed better.

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