Dr. Ed Tronick & Dr. Claudia Gold: ...on the power of discord

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Relationships have their ups and downs, whether they’re between family members, friends or co-workers. Most of us don’t like the down times because it’s uncomfortable to feel angry or disconnected from those we care about. However, our guests on this episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Ed Tronick and pediatrician Dr. Claudia Gold, say the conflicts in relationships are the keys to better relationships.
Doctors Tronick and Gold are the authors of the book, “The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience, and Trust”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.2	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:15.8	Most relationships have their ups and downs, whether they're between family members, friends, or co-workers. Most of us
0:22.5	don't like the down times because it's uncomfortable to be feeling angry or disconnected from those we
0:28.6	care about. However, our guests today, clinical psychologist Dr. Ed Tronik and pediatrician, Dr.
0:35.0	Claudia Gold, say the conflicts in relationships are the keys to better
0:39.8	relationships. And Dr. Stronic and Gold are the authors of the new book, The Power of Discord,
0:45.9	why the ups and downs of relationships are the secret to building intimacy, resilience, and trust.
0:51.6	Thank you both so much for joining us today. Talk about a topic that we
0:55.2	really need to be discussing right now. Exactly. Thank you. There's so much discord. Yeah. Well, talk to us
1:02.2	about your own backgrounds and how you guys connected and ended up writing this great book together.
1:07.8	Well, since my story is first in the book, I'll start.
1:14.9	So I'm a pediatrician and practice general and behavioral pediatrics for many years.
1:22.0	And I came to realize that even though I was in the right place at the right time with children and
1:28.5	families, often even from before birth, I didn't really have the tools that would help me to
1:35.8	support families. And there was a lot of experience of frustration and failure. And then in a series
1:41.7	of very fortuitous events events I discovered the field of infant
1:46.3	mental health and I began to apply some of the ideas that I had learned and had really
1:50.9	dramatic changes in my practice and had the good fortune then to learn about the fellowship
1:57.1	that Ed is the chief faculty of and I went and did the fellowship and then joined the
2:02.6	faculty of the program and continued to incorporate all the ideas into my work. And then Ed
2:10.3	approached me about writing a book together. And that's how we got here. And what was your goal with the
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