Place |
Name |
Characteristic in the rating |
| 1 | 7 Principles of a Happy Marriage, or Emotional Intelligence in Love | Based on scientific research of the Love Lab project |
| 2 | Right to "left" | Best-seller |
| 3 | Passion Paradox | Resolves problems of disharmonious relationships |
| 4 | five love languages | Top Reviews |
| 5 | Hug me tighter | Based on the EFT methodology |
| 6 | Women who love too much | The best on the topic of excessive love |
| 7 | Be afraid, I'm with you | Helps recognize destructive relationships |
| 8 | Loyal and caring husband | Vedic psychology |
| 9 | Psychology through and through | The widest range of topics covered |
| 10 | Act like a woman, think like a man | About the male vision of relationships |
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The question of relations between a man and a woman has always been acute. If we look reality in the eye, we will see that creating strong and productive relationships is an important task that not all people can do. To date, many scientific studies have been carried out, but the issue of love feelings remains relevant to this day. From a scientific point of view, love is a neurochemical process in the brain. A substance such as phenylethylamine is produced, which acts like a drug, it affects the logical centers so that a person feels elated and happy.
Why does love both give the brightest feelings and lead to depression? How to behave to become the subject of adoration? How to maintain a relationship if we are different people? Is it possible to live a long and happy family life together? How to survive a relationship crisis? How to avoid change? Useful tips, practical tasks, trainings - all this can be found in the books that we have collected in our rating of literature on the psychology of relations between a man and a woman.
TOP 10 best books on the psychology of relationships
10 Act like a woman, think like a man
Author: Steve Harvey
Rating (2022): 4.2
Witty and captivating storytelling in yet another masterpiece by Steve Harvey. The American television host and comedian published the book Act Like a Woman, Think Like a Man in 2009, and to this day, it has gone from a bestseller to a classic of gender psychoanalysis. The author believes that 3 things that any man needs are fidelity, support and intimacy. In what form to give it, women will learn from this guide.
Also, the author will share secrets: Which men are better to choose? What is love, intimacy and commitment in the understanding of men? What is the cause of male infidelity and how to prevent them? What words scare men? The 90 Days technique, which causes a respectful attitude towards you, and the 5 Questions technique, which determines the seriousness of his intentions, will be useful. The only drawback of the book, based on reviews, is the lack of a personal approach: the author describes all men in general.
9 Psychology through and through
Author: Pavel Zygmantovich
Rating (2022): 4.3
The author of the book is Pavel Zygmantovich, a family psychologist with more than fifteen years of professional experience, a blog host, and a participant in the TV project “Psychology Takeaway”. The manual is illustrated and written in a lively, memorable style, with numerous real-life examples. The author has a categorical view of clichéd psychology. There are a lot of issues discussed, judging by the reviews, this is a book with the widest range of topics covered about the relationship between a man and a woman.
Pavel Zygmantovich gives answers to the most pressing questions: How to get away from loneliness, but also not get into destructive relationships? Is a woman obligated to encourage a man to act? What if two strong personalities live in the same territory? Can cohabitation be called a family? When is it possible and necessary to get a divorce and how to survive it? And this is not the whole list of issues under consideration.
8 Loyal and caring husband
Author: Satya Das
Rating (2022): 4.3
More and more women are unhappy in marriage, and the book "A Faithful and Caring Husband" reveals the secrets of a happy family life. Satya Das is the pseudonym of the Vedic psychologist and philosopher Sergei Yakovlev, known in Europe and the CIS for his lectures and seminars, master classes on Vedic topics. Healing the body and soul through achieving harmony is the main principle promoted by the Vedic religion.
The book warns women against typical mistakes in relationships, focuses on the values of the family. The object of the author's attention was not only legal marriages, but also civil ones. How to lead a man to a decision to marry, and what a wedding should be like - an authoritative specialist on these issues also shared a secret.Recommended reading for young girls who enter into relationships with men, not understanding what they will lead to. The study will also be useful for beginners in the field of family psychology.
7 Be afraid, I'm with you
Author: Tanya Tank
Rating (2022): 4.4
Based on true stories, the book is by Tanya Tank, the popular author of the best blog about "unhealthy" relationships between a man and a woman. Initially, the publication gained popularity in electronic form, but today the book is presented to the viewer in a classic printed version. The manual will talk about abusers, perverted narcissists, destructive relationships and what they can lead to. Yes, the book contains terminology that is not familiar to everyone, but the author took the trouble to explain their meanings in simple language.
The reader is invited to consider the portrait of a typical sadist in detail, to analyze each stage of his scenario of luring the victim into a trap - there are eight of them, and how to get out of a dysfunctional relationship. The author often refers to the works of authoritative psychoanalysts and even cites fiction. Reviews often write that those who read the book gain the strength to get away from moral and domestic violence.
6 Women who love too much
Author: Robin Norwood
Rating (2022): 4.5
Psychological best-selling author Robin Norwood, in Women Who Love Too Much, examines relationships in which love has become a source of suffering - primarily for the woman. The obsession with a person who does not reciprocate is due, at a minimum, to biochemical processes called “love”, which cause a person to fear losing the object of adoration.In an effort to receive love in return, a woman tries to give as much love as possible to a man, turning into an obsessed, into a woman who loves too much. Such women always justify the bad character, the callousness of their man.
The book will give answers to the questions: Why is a woman actively looking for a loving man, but meets a selfish and insensitive one? Why is it often difficult to get out of such relationships? How to help yourself and unlearn to perceive love as an addiction? The book is enlivened by a light syllable, real examples and an interesting presentation of scientific terms.
5 Hug me tighter
Author: Sue Johnson
Rating (2022): 4.7
Sue Johnson is the head of an Emotionally Focused Therapy center in Canada and a professor of clinical psychology in Ottawa. She is committed to helping couples maintain their unity and find happiness in each other's company. Sue Johnson wrote this book in the spirit of her author's methodology. The manual will be useful to people who want to work on relationships, as well as those who are experiencing a relationship crisis, being in constant quarrels.
The guide has three parts. The first, on research data, explains the concept of "love"; how and why it disappears. Second – considers EFT (Married Life Therapy), which the author has been studying since 1988. These are 7 dialogue options that will be appropriate during the period when a discord has come in a couple. And the third part – explains the significance and power of love, how it shapes a person. The book was published in Russian quite recently.
4 five love languages
Author: Gary Chapman
Rating (2022): 4.7
Non-fiction book on how to express feelings.With its help, you can learn to show tenderness and kindness, as well as the main feeling in relation to your life partner - love. American pastor, Ph.D. Gary Chapman helps to fill his own life with meaning. The author is sure: expressing love, you can count on reciprocity. It is proposed to turn gray everyday life in a couple into an exchange of love messages expressed in 5 ways: in words, gifts, help, touch and time spent together.
The circulation of the book exceeds 2 million copies. It is already read in 34 languages, including Hindi and Arabic. Psychological overtones are combined with vivid examples from the life of real couples. Giving love is the main principle promoted by the author. Many people will find in it an outlet in the vacuum of loneliness. The book often appears in the ratings of literature on the psychology of relationships, collecting the best reviews.
3 Passion Paradox
Author: Dean Delis, Cassandra Phillips
Rating (2022): 4.8
The authors are a practicing psychologist with many years of experience and a journalist who decided to take a professional look at the relationship between people in which one loves, and the other allows him to be loved. Inequality in love, the burden of power, uncertainty syndrome, pain - all these are symptoms of the paradox of passion. The psychologist is sure that in any couple there are two roles - “strong” and “weak”, while partners can constantly change these roles against their will.
As an example, real stories of couples who turned to a psychotherapist are taken, based on their problems, the authors consider the problems of disharmonic relationships and try to suggest how it would be right to act in a given situation. By the way, by the end of the book, the reader will find out how the stories of the heroes ended.The first part will introduce you to the wrong behavior model, which provokes the inequality of partners. The second one will tell you how to come to an equal and strong relationship.
2 Right to "left"
Author: Esther Perel
Rating (2022): 4.9
The book will be of interest to people who have experienced betrayal by a loved one. In couples, both married and not, often there are questions of fidelity and jealousy - it is about them that the book tells. This manual is about the essence, causes, motives of change. It discusses the issues of jealousy and betrayal, revenge and hatred; questions of openness and secrecy are touched upon.
In the book, the author, one of the best practicing psychotherapists in Belgium, often draws on numerous examples from his own medical practice. The look of a specialist, coupled with a light syllable, demonstrates the author's skillful approach to presenting difficult situations and options for getting out of them. Translated into 16 languages, the book has become a world-class bestseller; recognized as the best book of 2017, according to Esquire USA. The manual will be useful not only to people studying the psychology of relations between a man and a woman, but also to everyone who has been cheated on.
1 7 Principles of a Happy Marriage, or Emotional Intelligence in Love
Author: John Gottman
Rating (2022): 5.0
The illustrious publication touches on topics that sooner or later touch any married couple. The author had a scientific basis for writing this guide. The research is based on observations of the family life of 700 couples over the course of 14 years who took part in the Love Lab project.The book provides an exemplary model of behavior in conflict situations related to sexual life, finances, everyday life, the birth of the first child.
The author, whose books are sorted into quotes, one of the best psychotherapists in America, the founder of the Gottman Institute in Seattle is John Gottman. He identifies four main reasons for divorce, which are covered in sections of the book: "Criticism", "Contempt", "Defensive Reaction" and "Wall". In addition, it reasonably breaks down stereotyped statements, reveals the secrets of happy couples, offers to perform exercises and pass tests to reinforce information in practice.
