Passionate Marriage: Sex, Love, and Intimacy in Emotionally-Committed RelationshipsPublished in 1998 by Owl Books (Henry Holt & Co., paperback) 
Advance Praise from the Experts"With the publication of Passionate Marriage, David Schnarch has made available a massive amount of carefully compiled and superbly organized information. Reading this state-of-the-art report will be of significant value to men and women living in socially and/or sexually distressed relationships. For marriage and family therapists, twice through this book may not be enough. Passionate Marriage is a classic."William H. Masters, M.D. "Passionate Marriage shows why David Schnarch is our leading thinker on the relationship of love and sex. He challenges much of our conventional wisdom while offering a new model of intimacy that integrates hot sex with caring love. This pioneering work opens whole new lines of thought and will benefit many couples." Bernie Zilbergeld, Ph.D. "Dr. Schnarch offers a model of love, sex and intimacy that will be useful both in coping with problems and increasing the quality of already good relationships. Couples who want to understand more about themselves and their relationship, as well as therapists who work with couples on sexual and marital issues, will find this book helpful and thought-provoking." Joseph LoPicollo, Ph.D. "David Schnarch has done it again! He has written a book that cogently and provocatively illustrates how differentiation can transform stale relationships into vital ones. His book is not the typical "cookbook" of simplistic exercises, but rather, a challenge to couples to dig deep inside themselves-and by so doing, to achieve greater intimacy and sexual pleasure. This is a book for adults who really want to understand themselves and their partners. The clinical illustrations highlight difficult concepts and make them meaningful. Schnarch is to be congratulated-both clinicians and clients will be intrigued and enlightened by this work!" Sandra R. Leiblum, Ph. D. "What an honest, straightforward, and rewarding book this is! Unlike any other book on sex and intimacy I have read, Schnarch doesn't just want to fix sex lives gone wrong; he want to enhance sex lives that can get even better. He doesn't make the mistake of separating people's heads from their bodies: he treats both at the same time with great results. Moreover, the book keeps a personal voice-you feel like the author is really having an intimate dialogue with you--and that keeps your interest, your focus, and makes it more likely that you will really listen to the wisdom and experience of this book. "This book challenges readers and will, I'm sure, provoke controversy among Schnarch's colleagues. But that's one of the great things about this engrossing and original book. No namby-pamby generalizations. If there ever was a point-of-view book, this is it! I think it will be very valuable for a lot of people-both individuals and couples. Schnarch gets down to the little details of sex-like kissing-that make all the difference. I'm very glad he wrote this book. I think a lot of people will read it and have more passionate relationships because of it." Pepper Schwartz, Ph. D. "By turns bold, brilliant and witty, this innovative work keeps the potentials of passionate sexuality front and center, but opens them to the rich panoply of our relationship struggles. It helps immensely with that most daunting of challenges: being two fully-realized people in an intimate encounter. Exactly what writing about human sexuality has needed!" Augustus Y. Napier, Ph. D. Return to Book Store Add your e-mail address to our mailing list to receive future MFHC news and workshop announcements. All materials, and contents of this website, unless otherwise noted, are copyright 1991-2008 by
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