Product Description
"Life Strategies", published to coincide with the start of Phillip McGraw's role on Oprah's "Change Your Life TV", gave powerful, straightforward advice on shaping your life and then making dramatic changes. In "Relationship Rescue" McGraw applies this expertise to relationships, explaining how to repair and maintain them using his unique 7-step relationship rescue plan. He can help you to diagnose what is wrong in a relationship, take personal responsibility, escape wrong thinking, embrace relationship truths, learn the formula for success, renegotiate a relationship and learn to live with love and harmony.

Amazon.com Review
As a follow-up to his bestselling book Life Strategies, Oprah acolyte Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D., moves from aiding the aimless individual to coaching the disconnected couple. McGraw has distilled his more than two decades of counseling experience into a seven-step strategy he calls "Relationship Rescue." "I'm prepared to kick a hole in the wall of the pain-ridden, unhappy maze you've gotten yourself into, and provide you clear access to action-oriented answers and instructions on what you must do to have what you want," says Dr. Phil. His aim is to expose and eliminate the saboteurs that cause senseless damage to already-fragile marriages, and, like an emotional root canal, to replace them with values he says provide positive results. If you follow Dr. Phil's strategy, he will lead you on a precise journey to uncover your heart and then share it with your partner as part of taking the "risk of intimacy." Dr. Phil leads you to "reconnect with your core" in the first five steps of his seven-step strategy. By no means a quick fix, there are in-depth and rigorous questionnaires, surveys, tests, and profiles that require a "brutally candid" mindset, with such fill-in-the-blanks as "List five things that today would make you fall out of love with your partner." With this internal work accomplished, you'll then move on to reconnecting with your partner during a two-week, half-hour-a-day short course. As a "dyad," you and your loved one take turns giving monologues on topics such as "The most positive thing I took away from my mother and father's relationship was..." Once the "reconnection" has been established, Dr. Phil says the work shifts to a management role, as relationships are always a work in progress. Dr. Phil humorously refers to his own marriage throughout the book, sharing his mishaps and victories in learning to accept and enjoy what he sees as fundamental but complementary differences between men and women. --John Youngs

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 113 reviews)

Dr Phil's rescue by Debbie Johnson (Moran, KS USA)

5 Stars
September 12, 2009
I really love Dr Phil, he has great wisdom and this book is packed with information for married couples. thank you Dr Phil. keep these wonderful informational books coming.

If your marrige is failing, do not descriminate ANY help! by D.R.Thomas (In The Grid, Just Like You)

4 Stars
July 28, 2009
Dr. McGraw's book was given to me by my wife during a time where I had become emotionally withdrawn from the relationship; this gesture to me was a harbinger for a much needed and desired change in my attitude. While I did not want to venture away from my current intellectual pursuits an inner voice swayed me to realize that this was a simple, but effective, way of my wife asking for a change, she had attempted to communicate to me through something I loved, reading. This humble attempt at asking for a change got through to me more than the usual accusation of being "a callously pessimistic @$$hole", so for that I decided to read the book. Reading the book was indeed a trudge, not for the lack of Dr. McGraw's writing capabilities, but for my interest in this subject matter; it was just not what my Mind was interested in reading. So, with some inner strength I forced myself to read it, and was actually surprised at the affect it had on my life in a holistic manner. First, Dr. McGraw's ability to convey his message to the laity is just admirable, this seems to be something I struggle with, so there was the first thing I focused on learning. Second, his ability to keep the book entertaining was humorously pleasing. Third, I like his style of not sugarcoating his perspective with an over convoluted approach, this is straight forward stuff. Fourth, this book is focused on your problems that are ingrained in your psyche; its thesis is "Fix yourself by realizing where you contribute to the problems, everyone is at fault, but you are to blame no one but yourself." Now, I am not into clichés but this book did help me in profound ways, and I think only those people that remain pompously hubris and falsely self-righteous can walk away from this and claim that they got absolutely nothing. Believe me, this book is 251 pages long, there IS at least one sentence in the book that will make you contemplate change. Enough about my subjective perspective, Dr. McGraw, as I have said earlier, attempts to aid you in finding what your contributions to the problems of the relationship are and how to make effective changes. Throughout the book he asks you to take several surveys and write down various items he wishes you to deeply contemplate, these are beneficial, but may seem somewhat trivial or inane at first, just do it. Later in the book he describes the top ten relationship myths, this part of the book is quite enlightening and does relieve one of the institutionalized perspective of what a relationship should be. After that section he describes how you can eliminate your "bad spirits" so the problems of the relationship are at least not perpetuated by your contribution of negative action and reaction. McGraw also gives you a set of exercises to execute with your spouse which if used will indeed be effective. Again, this may seem somewhat trivial or inane at first, just do it. Another reason I like this book is that Dr. McGraw does not claim to be the Messiah of relationships and he ensures this by identifying his own personal problems. He does not claim that this book will save your relationship, it is meant only as an initiatory state of a change that must be made or else you will merely continue to live the caustic culture of relationship that you are in now. The most interesting thing about this book is that even though Dr. McGraw is a scholar of multiple degrees, this is not the typical meandering of the "intellectual" mind that becomes perplexing and enigmatic to the general populace. I definitely recommend this book as an accouterment for the defense of saving your relationship, but first you have to realize that to a degree, you are wrong. One of the most influential quotes in the book that garnered acquiesce of my ego was this, "[A] relationship is far more enjoyable when you're with someone who enriches your life, not simply reflects it." That may be just platitude to some, but that was one of my core issues in my relationship. - D.R.Thomas

Critical Review by Tim Kellis by Timothy M. Kellis (Boca Raton, FL)

1 Stars
January 28, 2009
Relationship Rescue by Phillip C. McGraw, PhD. Introduction: A book that clearly demonstrates the lack of understanding of the successful relationship is Relationship Rescue by Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D. What is so sad about this book is that he is so close to the answer yet still unable to understand. Today he is the highest profile psychologist in the industry but that doesn't mean he comes close to really helping troubled relationships. Because of his profile, though, he is the most colorful in his words and his writing. Unfortunately for his audience, he is even more emphatic about his beliefs, which turn out to be even more illogical than many of his competitors. This fact is most obvious in his section defining the myths of the relationship. Yes, even the esteemed Dr. Phil falls into this trap with his relationship book. In the book Dr. Phil first assumes that yes every relationship includes arguments. Details: For example, he explains that it is "completely naïve and fanciful thinking" to believe serious disagreements can be resolved and that "In the twenty five years that I have been doing work in the field of human behavior, I have seen few if any genuine relationship conflicts ever get resolved." Yes, it appears he is admitting that he has not solved one conflict in twenty-five years of practice! So is he saying we just move on without any possibility of reconciling differences in relationships? His "logic" is that "If arguing is done in accordance with some very simple rules of engagement, it can actually help the quality and longevity of the relationship in a number of ways." He cites numerous times throughout the book this belief. "...Whether you have arguments is not what determines the long-term success or failure of your relationship. It's how you argue." In most of the rest of the book he elaborates on these very simple rules of how to argue as his new revelations. Without a platform of common sense, the logic of arguments is followed by suppression of the negative feelings behind the discontent, without any psychological explanation for the source of these negative feelings. He also mentions, "Men are going to be men and women are going to be women, and no therapist can change it." Dr. Phil actually reveals that therapy is not directed towards men by stating in a letter written to men at the back of the book, "I'm assuming that this letter is the first thing you're reading in this book." On the positive side, this book begins his quest to help individuals become happy by explaining the path to overcome the troubles is the responsibility of the reader. Individuals must be happy with themselves before they can make the relationship happy. In a section where he comes oh so close to discovering the positive relationship is a section entitled "Make yourself happy rather than right". Ironically, in this section he cites one of the few case studies of a chief master sergeant father and a rebellious son in exhibiting the differences between being right and happy. Again, this is one of the few case studies cited. The father comments his son should obey him "because I'm the father, by God, and as long as he's living under my roof, eating my food, and spending my money, I've got the right to tell him what to do and how to do it." Does Dr. Phil follow up with successfully helping the father's perspective? No. Two and a half weeks after this session the son dies playing basketball. Now of all of the examples he must have seen in his "twenty five" years in practice this is the only example he could come up with? Why wouldn't he give an example of an unhappy man and wife with whom he was able to convey this message? Dr. Phil has given up on relationship therapy as he mentioned on Oprah, though, because he realizes there isn't anything he can do. He does try sometimes now that he has his own show. David Letterman even ribs Dr. Phil nightly on his show: Words of Wisdom From Dr. Phil, "I don't know what I am doing," "I'll beat the crap out of you." "Call your wife a bitch." "90% of people are stupid." Apparently Dr. Phil has now become an entertainer instead of a psychologist, sort of a Jerry Springer with a diploma. By Tim Kellis [...]

Real, life changing help! Struggling or thriving relationship can benefit! by Shirley (Texas)

5 Stars
January 11, 2009
This program can turn a sour relationship, revive a mundane, and inspire an already great one. I recommend this book to all my friends, especially those who are struggling in their relationship. Do the work and reap the benefits. It is a truly amazing & life changing program no matter what state your relationship is in. I purchased two books & my spouse & I worked the program together. Dr. Phil makes it clear that you alone can make positive changes, even if you work it alone. This program is written in an easy to understand manner and can make for a better life. The sooner you begin, the sooner the benefits!

Video Review for Relationship Rescue by Jessie by Jessie Anderson (Seattle, WA USA)

5 Stars
January 04, 2009
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RSBHHVPGK39P3 Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with Your PartnerRelationship Rescue Workbook, The: Exercises and Self-Tests to Help You Reconnect with Your Partner

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