Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-493) and index.

The myths, mistakes, and promise of couples therapy -- Physiological and psychological flooding -- Solving the moment, or "Doing a Dan Wile" -- The Sound Relationship House theory -- Our relationship checkup questionnaires -- The Levenson-Gottman Love Lab in your office: emotion dynamics -- The Gottman Connect Assessment reports -- An emotion-dynamic typology of couples we see every day -- Understanding our typology: patterns of social influence and the relationships builder -- Fixing active listening: the Gottman-Rapoport Conflict Blueprint and making repairs mid-conversation -- Meta-emotion mismatches, distrust, and attunement -- Not all conflicts are the same: perpetual conflicts and the dreams within conflict intervention -- Healing old emotional wounds: the aftermath of a fight or regrettable incident -- Building friendship and intimacy -- The devitalized couple -- Making individual dreams come true and building the share meaning system -- Rebuild trust and commitment: treating affair couples -- Treating situational domestic violence -- Treating substance abuse and addiction.

"Now, in the book's first-ever revision, Dr. Gottman and Dr. Gottman incorporate the results of their studies and their most powerful interventions. In addition to its original, celebrated marital therapy program, The New Marriage Clinic includes findings on the dynamics of same-sex couples, interventions for couples recovering from situational domestic violence, strategies for couples rebuilding their marriages after an affair, and much more. No relational therapist's bookshelf is complete without this vital update to the groundbreaking guide on marital therapy."--Amazon.ca.