A Close Confiding Relationship and Dr. Lydgate's Enhancing Marital Intimacy Therapy Manual

This book begins with an imaginary marital assessment interview by Dr Lydgate, a flawed psychiatrist with three failed marriages. He interviews imaginary couples from the literary world of relationships like Adam and Eve and Romeo and Juliet to offer the reader insight into marital intimacy. A narrator offers a psychological view of the process. Part two offers information on how to interview couples, assess couples and treat couples by helping them disclose their ideas about relationships from their parents and past experience.

Dr Edward Waring is a retired Psychiatrist. He was the professor and head of the department of psychiatry at Queen's University in Kingston Ontario. He was a clinical Professor at UBC and was past president of both the Ontario and British Columbia Psychiatric Associations. He was awarded the gold medal in psychiatry at the University of Toronto during his residency. He is the author of Enhancing Marital Intimacy, Why Men Depress Women and the Waring Intimacy Questionnaire.