The science of healthy relationships with John and Julie Gottman

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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For decades, renowned psychologists John and Julie Gottman have studied–and guided–healthy relationships. They share insights from their research–and their marriage–on how to avoid a relationship apocalypse, handle conflict, and make love last. Their latest book, “The Love Prescription” is out now, and Adam has a field day getting them to demonstrate the differences between good and bad fights.
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0:00.0	Thanks to Deloitte for sponsoring this episode.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:08.0	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick.
0:12.0	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:16.0	people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:20.0	My guests today have changed how I think about relationships.
0:27.0	Actually, they've probably done more good for everyone's relationships than anybody else on earth.
0:32.0	As pioneering psychologists for the past four decades,
0:35.0	John and Julie Gottman have done groundbreaking work on the science and practice of healthy marriages.
0:41.0	They co-founded the Gottman Institute, and they've written numerous bestselling books together.
0:46.0	Their newest release is the love prescription.
0:51.0	I have so many questions for both of you, but I guess the place I want to start is
0:56.0	how did you get interested in studying relationships?
0:59.0	Well, I got interested in studying relationships 50 years ago, primarily because my relationships were failing.
1:06.0	I teamed up with my best friend Robert Levinson, who's a psychology professor at UC Berkeley.
1:13.0	And his relationships were not going very well either.
1:17.0	And I know Bob once said, John, we can either have a relationship or study relationships.
1:24.0	We're doomed to just study that.
1:27.0	So we built a lab to try to learn from people who have good relationships, how to do it.
1:34.0	And I think I got interested in relationships through John, because I began as a psychologist who was working with heroin addicts,
1:46.0	folks who were diagnosed with schizophrenia, people who were really traumatized by either war combat,
1:53.0	or torture, or sexual abuse, or physical abuse.
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