Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Distance, Destruction, and Divorce

So many couples are guilty of the same dream: we are supposed to walk into love knowing how to do it--how to build and maintain a relationship.

Creating and maintaining a great marriage, relationship, or partnership is hard work. A second truth is that nobody teaches you how to do it.

Love, Crash, Rebuild breaks down a five-step model for readers in any type of romantic partnership to help couples find a new understanding of what a successful relationship can look like.

Mark B. Borg, Jr., PhD, is a community and clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. He is a founding partner of The Community Consulting Group, a consulting firm that trains community stakeholders, local governments, and other organizations to use psychoanalytic techniques in community rebuilding and revitalization. He is a supervisor of psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute and has written extensively about the intersection of psychoanalysis and community crisis intervention. He is the author of Don’t Be a Dick and coauthor of the Irrelationship series.

Haruna Miyamoto-Borg is a licensed psychotherapist with more than fifteen years of experience working in New York City in private practice. She specializes in working with couples of diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, social-class, and sexual orientations. Early in her career, she dedicated herself to working in the not-for-profit sector. She worked for the Center for Urban Community Services--the largest non-profit organization serving the homeless population in New York City. Currently, Miyamoto-Borg is in training at the prestigious Ackerman Institute for The Family in New York City. Her blog on Psychology Today is entitled ＂Couples and Culture.＂