Product Description

The insights and tools in The Shadow Side of Intimate Relationships assure that the reader no longer will pine for connection but instead be joyfully living it daily.

Couples can create rewarding relationships but that takes knowledge and work, say authors Douglas and Naomi Moseley. Writing in their third book, they dig into the unknown side of romance. They assert that the secret is for each person to discover and acknowledge their own hidden aspects.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #379536 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

About the Author
For the past six years, therapists Doug and Naomi Mosely have co-led more than a hundred weekend seminars in Vancouver and Seattle. In 1989, they built a retreat center in the mountains of British Columbia, where they lead 7-11 day intensive counseling workshops for individuals and couples during the summer months. Recently, they have opened another facility in Taos, New Mexico, where they lead workshops and conduct private sessions in the winter.

Naomi Moseley was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Michigan. She holds a B.S. in anthropology and an M.F.A. from Wayne State University. Married with two sons, Naomi began to develop the first of several interests and became recognized for her artistic abilities as a painter. Through this early interest in the expressive arts she honed the intuitive skills she would use later as a therapist.

In 1978, Naomi opened one of the first aerobic fitness studios in Michigan, and over the course of seven years built it into a thriving business. During that time, she was featured in a daily half-hour TV show on fitness. She began to see the value of dance as a medium for therapeutic change and, after she sold her fitness center, trained as a dance therapist and studied Gestalt therapy.

In 1979, acting on a long-standing fascination with psychology and the therapeutic process, he entered the Master's program in counseling psychology at the University of British Columbia, writing his thesis on the therapeutic relationship.

A Canadian, Doug was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He moved to Vancouver after completion of his undergraduate degree. As a young man, he worked at a wide variety of jobs and traveled extensively. He felt a strong attraction to the Canadian frontier, and, at one time, supervised the transportation of men and supplies for an offshore drilling operation in the Arctic. Shortly after earning his M.A., Doug re-evaluated his life, divorced his then-wife, and entered a time of extensive exploration of non-traditional approaches to healing. He was significantly influenced by his work with W. Brugh Joy, M.D., F.A.C.P., and later went on to investigate the use of unconscious patterns (shadow material) within relationships, incorporating it into his therapy practice.

Shortly after they married, Doug and Naomi estabished a private practice in Vancouver, B.C. In addition to private sessions with individuals and couples, a significant portion of their practice was devoted to group therapy. In the early years of their marriage, they worked with their own shadow material, and discovered that intimacy deepened to a point they never imagined possible. Together, Doug and Naomi began to explore this unconscious material with couples in their practice and found that, for a small group of dedicated seekers, it was far more effective than traditional counseling approaches.