Gottman????

So I spent some time researching Gottman because Danny speaks so highly of him. I checked it out.... Gottman has some interesting ideas. I don't know what I think of his theories... he seems to say a lot of what I have already learned and a couple things I've learned are wrong... well if anyone has the time and wants to give me their opinion on the guy I'd love to hear it. He says he can predict whether couples will stay together or not with 90% accuracy..... I'm skeptical...

"John Gottman, Ph.D. is known for his work on marital stability and relationship analysis through direct observations. The lessons learned from this work represent a partial basis for the relationship counseling movement which is based on specific training and education of behaviors which will improve relationship functioning and the avoidance of those behaviors, shown by Gottman and researchers, to deteriorate human relationships.

Dr. Gottman claims to have developed a method that predicts with 90% percent accuracy which newlywed couples will remain married and which will divorce four to six years later. It is also 81% percent accurate in predicting which marriages will survive after seven to nine years. Dr. Gottman's prediction method is described in the book Blink and the television series The Human Face. Dr. Gottman's method relies on Paul Ekman's method of analyzing human emotion and microexpressions.

Dr. Gottman became a professor of psychology at the University of Washington. Many of his books have been widely sold in the popular press. Typical of his work are The Relationship Cure and The Marriage Clinic."


http://www.gottman.com/