Harriet Lerner
MO, US
Award-winning author & specialist in the area of psychology of women
Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected voices on the psychology of women and family relationships. She is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and a distinguished lecturer, consultant, and workshop leader. Dr. Lerner is the author of the bestselling "Dance of" trilogy, including The Dance of Anger, The Dance of Intimacy, and The Dance of Deception. Her bestselling books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Dance of Anger, have sold more than three million copies and have been translated into more than 30 languages. Her most recent books are The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You Are Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Betrayed, or Desperate and The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life. She is also the author of Life Preservers and Women in Therapy, a classic text on the psychology of women. For over a decade her monthly column for New Woman magazine entitled, "Harriet Lerner's Good Advice," has been enjoyed by millions of her fans. Dr. Lerner has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Oprah, CNN, and Donahue, and NPR. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of several award- winning children's books (with her sister), including Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair and What's So Terrible About Swallowing An Appleseed? MOST REQUESTED PROGRAMS: The Dance of Connection How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed or Desperate. Based on her newest book, Lerner teaches us how to "set things right" and heal distance and disconnections. She gives us wise and innovative "voice lessons" that teach us to navigate our difficult relationships with courage and joyous conviction. Marriage and Couples: Ten Steps to Making Your Relationship Work Lerner examines the essential challenges that all couples face as they stay together over time. With wisdom, wit and humor, she outlines the ten specific steps that we can take in order to create more loving, mutually enhancing relationships. The Challenge of Anger, Intimacy and Truth-Telling Getting angry and trying to speak our own truths, often gets us nowhere ... or even makes things worse. Lerner offers a new perspective on how anger and truth-telling can be used as a powerful tool for achieving intimacy and for reshaping our lives. Mothers and Daughters: The Crucial Connection A lecture for those seeking to better understand the mystery of the mother-daughter bond. Lerner identifies the "hot spots" in this key relationship and offers skills and guidelines to open the lines of communication so that we can stay connected ... and stay ourselves ... when problems arise. The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life An unconventional look at the mother's experience of mothering and how her relationships are transformed by motherhood. With stories that run the gamut from the hilarious to the sobering, Lerner shows us how kids are the best teachers of life's most profound spiritual lessons. And she helps mothers say "Enough" to guilt and self-blame.
Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected voices on the psychology of women and family relationships. She is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and a distinguished lecturer, consultant, and workshop leader. Dr. Lerner is the author of the bestselling "Dance of" trilogy, including The Dance of Anger, The Dance of Intimacy, and The Dance of Deception. Her bestselling books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Dance of Anger, have sold more than three million copies and have been translated into more than 30 languages. Her most recent books are The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You Are Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Betrayed, or Desperate and The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life. She is also the author of Life Preservers and Women in Therapy, a classic text on the psychology of women. For over a decade her monthly column for New Woman magazine entitled, "Harriet Lerner's Good Advice," has been enjoyed by millions of her fans. Dr. Lerner has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Oprah, CNN, and Donahue, and NPR. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of several award- winning children's books (with her sister), including Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair and What's So Terrible About Swallowing An Appleseed? MOST REQUESTED PROGRAMS: The Dance of Connection How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed or Desperate. Based on her newest book, Lerner teaches us how to "set things right" and heal distance and disconnections. She gives us wise and innovative "voice lessons" that teach us to navigate our difficult relationships with courage and joyous conviction. Marriage and Couples: Ten Steps to Making Your Relationship Work Lerner examines the essential challenges that all couples face as they stay together over time. With wisdom, wit and humor, she outlines the ten specific steps that we can take in order to create more loving, mutually enhancing relationships. The Challenge of Anger, Intimacy and Truth-Telling Getting angry and trying to speak our own truths, often gets us nowhere ... or even makes things worse. Lerner offers a new perspective on how anger and truth-telling can be used as a powerful tool for achieving intimacy and for reshaping our lives. Mothers and Daughters: The Crucial Connection A lecture for those seeking to better understand the mystery of the mother-daughter bond. Lerner identifies the "hot spots" in this key relationship and offers skills and guidelines to open the lines of communication so that we can stay connected ... and stay ourselves ... when problems arise. The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life An unconventional look at the mother's experience of mothering and how her relationships are transformed by motherhood. With stories that run the gamut from the hilarious to the sobering, Lerner shows us how kids are the best teachers of life's most profound spiritual lessons. And she helps mothers say "Enough" to guilt and self-blame.
2010