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"Like Cloé Madanes herself, this collection of her writings is refreshingly playful and profoundly wise. In it she explores her unshakeable belief in the power of people to drive one another sane and the power of words to change the world. The unforgettable case histories are often hilarious, as Cloé cuts through the bullshit and embraces the love inside families. We see what makes the ever more charming Madanes perhaps the most inspiring thinker and doer in the field of family therapy."
Frank Pittman
Author of Turning Points: Treatment of Families in Transition and Crisis
“Cloé Madanes has a unique voice among family therapists. She is the only one among us for whom techniques like ordeal, tasks, unbalancing, and pretending commingle with shame, injustice, forgiveness, reparation, and repentance. She has worked with the most difficult patients, perpetrators of violence and incest, and has come out with clear sequential steps of intervention committed wholly to the process of healing. This book of her collected papers is a trove of techniques of strategic therapy, written with elegance and clarity. Enjoy it.”
Sal Minuchin, M.D.
Professor of Child Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania
Co-author of Family Healing
“To call the pioneering work of Cloé Madanes psychotherapy is to me at best superficial. Psychotherapy is one person helping another to take more effective control of his or her life. Cloé goes far beyond this. She is a humanist, social activist and systematic thinker who gets actively involved with the basic problem of all human beings: we don't trust each other humanely. We don't have nearly the commitment to basic human rights that Cloé believes fervently we should have. As explained in these Selected Papers, Cloé has been on the cutting edge of human rights for her whole career. To work with her as I have begun to do is a privilege. I am a better human being because of what I've learned from Cloé.”
William Glasser, M.D.
Founder and President, William Glasser Institute
Author of Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health
"It is always our hope that the great minds of our time gather their contributions in an anthology of their best work. Now we have that in this 35 year compendium of the works of Cloé Madanes. From her early years of working with the pioneers of Family Therapy to her tireless efforts with drug addicts, the mentally ill and juvenile sex offenders to the more contemporary political issues of psychotherapy, this compendium spans a life of courageous work. This book reflects a labor of love and compassion for the human condition and represents the heart and soul of change - a text that belongs in everyone's library."
Frank M. Dattilio, Ph.D., ABPP
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
"Cloé Madanes has been inspiring, cajoling and challenging us to grow and be better therapists - and better people - with her ideas and methods throughout her entire remarkable career. With this invaluable collection of many of her most important writings, we are given a concentrated dose of her wisdom and integrity to guide our therapies and our lives. Readers will no doubt be impressed by her range and depth of insight and compassion, and will likely find much to treasure in her words."
Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Author of Trancework and Breaking the Patterns of Depression
“Filled with clinical stories that highlight lifespan concerns, such as early marriage, child issues, middle years, divorce and second marriage, wealth and poverty, and old age….Don’t let the small size and easy readability of this book fool you. Its message is concentrated: It is possible to have both money and love.”
The Psychotherapy Letter
“A treasure chest of wisdom about the touchiest and most explosive topic of family life. Pure gold!”
Frank S. Pittman III, M.D.
Author of Man Enough
“Overspending is a common dysfunction among couples, and Madanes has some unorthodox but effective possible solutions.”
Daily Morning News
“Cloé Madanes has ventured into the complex arena of working with families where there is violence and sexual abuse. She has developed with elegant simplicity a set of guidelines for helping these families heal. Her work embraces the spiritual dimension that must be a part of the healing process in these families. This is daring work and I am sure it will invite controversy from some, applause from others, and both from many. It is pioneering and innovative.”
Carrell A. Dammann, Ph.D.
Director, Open House: A Place for Family Healing, Atlanta
President, Georgia Council on Child Abuse
“Cloé Madanes offers us a collection of stories, essays, and cases about love and about teaching people how to love and to make love. As she explores the dilemma between love and violence she restores moral values to therapy but she also stirs up some welcome controversy. By remaining steadfastly systemic she manages to restore sanity to the frenzied bedlam surrounding sexual abuse.
This is a lovely book in which a brilliantly creative therapist courageously leads us through some highly charged territory and makes the treacherous journey both enlightening and optimistic.”
Frank S. Pittman, III, M.D.
Author of Private Lies and Turning Points
“Behind the One-Way Mirror takes another giant step in family therapy’s continuing effort to expose people to the benefits of doing what works for them.”
Behavioral Science Book Service
“Madanes has done a fine job….Rather than prescribing symptoms or assigning benign reasons to provocative behaviors, she introduces a powerful arsenal of disconcertingly paradoxical directives….A technique that frees up old patterns, confuses past modes of communication, and touches a healthy playfulness in family members. Her approach is humane and gentle.”
Library Journal
“Madanes’ lucid, coherent, and practical guide for family therapists goes well beyond the work of her mentors… and is a welcome addition to the proliferating literature by family theorists and practitioners.”
Contemporary Psychology
“In a manner both bold and generous, the author shares her therapeutic skill.”
Family Therapy Networker
Negotiating Conflict: Leadership in Times of Crisis
"A powerful, moving, and highly educational demonstration of the method of indirect negotiation in action on 9/11. Extraordinary!"
William Ury, Ph.D., Director, Global Negotiation Project, Harvard University, Co-author of Getting to Yes
“Tony Robbins’ brilliant clinical work elucidated through Cloé Madanes’ wise clinical acumen! Revealed for the first time are powerful techniques for individuals and systems that will help change agents craft rapid, enduring effects. Experience and learn from masters.”
Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., Author of A Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson, M.D.
"The scene is a workshop that Tony Robbins is giving in Hawaii on September 11, 2001. The World Trade Center has collapsed. Members of his large audience are filled with confusion, anger, hurt, and fear. But Robbins turns a horrifying time into a turning point in the lives of all who are there. This is a powerful, compelling, and liberating experience to watch. Tony Robbins takes the anger and confusion of two opposing forces within two men and finds the common humanity and passion within each man. Tony Robbins directs each of them - a Jewish man from New York and a Pakistani from Berkeley, California. We watch in awe as these two men express their internal archetypes, search within themselves for something better than anger and hurt, and find a heroic and human reconciliation. You will be moved and you will find wisdom here."
¾Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., President, International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell University Medical College, New York Hospital
Reclaiming Your True Identity: The Power of Vulnerability
"Witness what the power of love can do in 90 minutes. Tony Robbins is a gift to humanity and most certainly a huge blessing to my family."
Quincy Jones, Producer
“This film powerfully demonstrates strategies to change self-limiting choices to ones of generativity, love, and possibilities. Lise’s reclaiming of her vulnerability is touching, an end to decades of personal suffering. This film will be of great benefit for therapists and all those who want to facilitate change.”
Les Blondino, Jr., LPC, LMFT, Director, Strategic Therapy Associates, Inc.
“Anthony Robbins demonstrates remarkable skills for being incisive while soft and loving. Cloé Madanes gives us a beautiful coordination of clarity of language and depth of insights.”
Erving Polster, Ph.D., Author of Every Person’s Life Deserves a Novel
“Anthony Robbins communicates with brilliance the creative methods and tools used to engage people in personal transformation.”
Frank R. Kunstal, Ed.D., P.C., Licensed Psychologist, Specialist in Family Violence
Conquering Overwhelming Loss: The Power of Rediscovering a Compelling Future
"In this powerful encounter with a suicidally depressed man, Anthony Robbins displays every skill a great therapist needs - the abilities to support and confront, cajole and contradict, inform and inspire. Robbins' artistry is all the more remarkable because he isn't a therapist. Rather, he is a keen observer of what works in living life well, and a great teacher of these vital life skills. There is much to learn from watching this interaction, amplified by Cloé Madanes, who insightfully identifies and articulates the wisdom found in Robbins' approach."
¾Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Author of Breaking the Patterns of Depression and Hand-Me-Down Blues
"Robbins and Madanes make a dynamic team in this powerful, emotional series of interventions. They demonstrate an invaluable area of clinical understanding by dramatically showing the difference between a person who is truly and benevolently in distress and someone who is working out their pain at the expense of others. Those who work with both adults and adolescents can see the immediate application of these principals in their practices.”
Jerome A. Price, Director & Founder, Michigan Family Institute, Author of Power and Compassion: Working with Difficult Adolescents and Abused Parents
Finding Your True Passion: The Power of Honesty in Action
“Riveting film . . . watch your relationships transform.”
Terence Real., Author of How Can I Get Through To You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“Robbins pierces the paradoxes of desire, and the ambivalences of passion with the precision of an archer and the speed of the arrow. His unwavering commitment to helping us transform is a potent mix of challenge and support, kicks and strokes. When Robbins believes in us, we start to believe in ourselves too. He not only teaches, he inspires, and he becomes transcending.
At the start, Robbins meets a woman who is victim. She suffers and is about to sacrifice her life. At the session's end she's the heroine. Her passion is rekindled; that is: her passions-- eroticism in the full sense of the word, aliveness, vibrancy, expansiveness.
Madanes is the Greek chorus who comments on the action, analyzes and distills the concepts. Madanes is the voice of reason and calmness that accompanies intensity of Robbins. She grounds us, let's us know that his magic is not for the selected few lucky enough to be molded in his hands. Through her we get to see how to revive our own passion, confront our own dilemmas and contradictions.”
Esther Perel, Clinical Instructor, NYU Medical Center School of Medicine, Psychiatry and author of Mating in Captivity (HarperCollins, Sept 2006)
Relationship Storms: Man Enough to Stay the Course
“One of the most remarkable interventions with a couple ever filmed. Anthony Robbins, using novel and sophisticated psychological techniques, facilitates a wife’s and husband’s transformation from the edge of dissolution to a place of heart. Both experienced and beginning therapists will benefit from watching this master healer whose strategic interventions are illuminated by the incisive commentary of Cloé Madanes.”
Brian A. Gerrard, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Child and Family Development, University of San Francisco
“This is an amazing contribution to the field of psychotherapy. Rarely do you see such masterful therapeutic skill, expert analyses and artful teaching in a single piece of work. This video illustrates, not a mere leveraging of behavior but the rapid transformation of individuals and their relationships that both Madanes and Robbins are known around the world for.
Scott Shimabukuro, Ph.D., ABPP, Director of Training, Sunny Hills Children’s Garden
Back From the Edge: Creating Everlasting Love
“Back From the Edge: Creating Everlasting Love is a breath of fresh air. Tony Robbins utilizes the material he observes and receives from this couple in a way reminiscent of Milton Erickson. He communicates respect as he helps them get “unstuck” from their “game without end” their broken record committing the same mistakes over and over again. Cloé Madanes’ analysis of Robbins’ work is both insightful and to the point.
John H. Frykman, Ph.D., and author of A New Connection and The Hassle Handbook
"Brilliant and inspiring! Powerful interventions and enlightening commentary - highly recommended!"
Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Some Stories Are Better Than Others and The Present is a Gift