To Understand and Be Understood: A Practical Guide to Successul Relationships

This practical guide offers a series of sure-fire strategies to those seeking to transform their personal relationships and inspire new ones. Drawing upon examples from everyday life, Erik Blumenthal’s warm, anecdotal, and down-to-earth advice will change the way you look at your friends and family, and yield radical results in your interactions with those around you, creating understanding and loving relationships in all the spheres of your life. The result? A happier, more fulfilled you. The key? A new understanding of ourselves and others based on simple easy-to-use principles. A preeminent psychotherapist and analyst, lecturer, and author Erik Blumenthal Dip. Psych. (1914–2004) was President of the Swiss Society for Individual Psychology and Director of the International Committee for Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes. He wrote a number of books on child-rearing, self-education, marriage and old age.