Getting the Love You Want

This week's episode features iconic relationship expert Harville Hendrix, PhD. We'll discuss his work in Imago Therapy and seminal book, Getting the Love You Want (A Guide for Couples). Harville Hendrix, PhD began his career as a therapist and educator at the Pastoral Counseling Center of Greater Chicago in 1965 where he was Clinical Director He received his doctorate in Psychology and Theology in 1970 and became a member of the faculty of Perkins Divinity School at Southern Methodist in Dallas, Texas where he taught for nine years. In 1979 he entered private practice as a therapist. In 1977, Harville met Helen LaKelly Hunt and they married in 1982. They are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couple's therapy and co-authors of three New York Times best sellers (Getting the Love You Want-(4 million copies); Keeping The Love You Find, and Giving The Love That Heals), Receiving Love, and Making Marriage Simple and six other books on relationships Imago Relationship Therapy has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show seventeen times, one of which won for her the "most socially redemptive" award for daytime talk shows. It has also been featured on many other major television shows, in countless radio shows, newspapers and major magazines. Harville and Helen founded the Institute for Imago Relationship Therapy to train therapist in the Imago process and to develop workshops for couples and singles. Later called the Imago International Training Institute, which was forty faculty members, the institute has trained over 2500 therapists who practice Imago Relationship Therapy in over 60 countries and nearly 200 workshop presenters who conduct workshops around the world. These Imago professionals founded Imago Relationships Worldwide for professional growth and development and created an international Imago community. In 2015, Harville co-founded, with Helen, an organization called Safe Conversations LLC. This training institute teaches a relational intervention based on the latest relational sciences that can help anyone shift from conflict to connection. Harville and Helen believe that Safe Conversations can contribute to a more relational world, with more gender and racial equity. To that end, the aim of SC LLC is to teach Safe Conversations, over the next 30 years, to 3.2 billion people (the tipping point of world population in 2050) with the intention of facilitating that shift from our current "individualistic" civilization to a relational civilization, the fourth stage in human social evolution.