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Life Preservers: Good Advice When You Need It Most Paperback - 1997
by Harriet Lerner
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One of America's most respected and bestselling self-help writers provides "life preserving" advice on life, love and work in an engaging question-and-answer format. Dr. Harriet Lerner's books have sold more than 3 million copies and her monthly column in "New Woman" reaches 4.5 million readers each month.
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With wit, wisdom and uncommon sense, Dr. Harriet Lerner gives readers the tools to solve problems and create joy, meaning and integrity in their relationships. Women will find Life Preservers (more than 40,000 copies sold in hardcover) to be an invaluable motivational guide that covers the landscape of work and creativity, anger and intimacy, friendship and marriage, children and parents, loss and betrayal, sexuality and health and much more. With new insights and a results-oriented approach, Dr. Lerner answers women's most frequently asked questions and offers the best advice for problems women face today: I always pick the wrong guys. Should I move in with him?I can't stand my boss. Should I leave my marriage? How can I recover from his affair? Is my fantasy abnormal? Is my therapy working? I miss my mother. I can't believe I was fired.
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By the time I started graduate school in the sixties, I had a vivid image of the man I was looking for
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With wit, wisdom and uncommon sense, Dr. Harriet Lerner gives readers the tools to solve problems and create joy, meaning and integrity in their relationships. Women will find Life Preservers (more than 40,000 copies sold in hardcover) to be an invaluable motivational guide that covers the landscape of work and creativity, anger and intimacy, friendship and marriage, children and parents, loss and betrayal, sexuality and health and much more.
With new insights and a results-oriented approach, Dr. Lerner answers women's most frequently asked questions and offers the best advice for problems women face today:
I always pick the wrong guys.
Should I move in with him?
I can't stand my boss.
Should I leave my marriage?
How can I recover from his affair?
Is my fantasy abnormal?
Is my therapy working?
I miss my mother.
I can't believe I was fired.
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- Title Life Preservers: Good Advice When You Need It Most
- Author Harriet Lerner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition HarperPerennial
- Pages 372
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1997-03-28
- ISBN 9780060928353 / 0060928352
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.74 x 5.56 x 0.98 in (22.20 x 14.12 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Theometrics: Secular
- Topical: Family
- Category Psychology
- Library of Congress subjects Lerner, Harriet Goldhor - Correspondence, Women - Psychology - Miscellanea
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96003984
- Dewey Decimal Code 646.7
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