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The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate Paperback - 2002

by Harriet Lerner

With remarkable clarity, a renowned psychologist shows both men and women how to talk to someone when they are angry, hurt, frustrated, insulted, betrayed, or even desperate. Guiding readers to take specific steps to heal broken relationship connections, Lerner shows how to navigate relationships with integrity, courage, and conviction.


About this book

Subtitled: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate, The Dance of Connection focuses on communication within intimate relationships to express one’s true self. Author Harriet Lerner is a clinical psychologist known for her books on improving family and work relationships. Her first book, The Dance of Anger, published in 1985, was the first book published in the United States on the subject of women’s anger. The Dance of Connection is her seventh published book for adults and teaches people to navigate their most important relationships with clarity, courage, and joyous conviction.

From the publisher

Bestselling author Harriet Lerner focuses on the challenge and the importance of being able to express one's "authentic voice" in intimate relationships.

The key problem in relationships, particularly over time, is that people begin to lose their voice. Despite decades of assertiveness training and lots of good advice about communicating with clarity, timing, and tact, women and men find that their greatest complaints in marriage and other intimate relationships are that they are not being heard, that they cannot affect the other person, that fights go nowhere, that conflict brings only pain. Although an intimate, long-term relationship offers the greatest possibilities for knowing the other person and being known, these relationships are also fertile ground for silence and frustration when it comes to articulating a true self. And yet giving voice to this self is at the center of having both a relationship and a self. Much as she did in THE MOTHER DANCE, Lerner will approach this rich subject with tales from her personal life and clinical work, inspiring and teaching readers to speak their own truths to the most important people in their lives.


First line

The thread that unites my work both as an author and as a psychologists my desire to help people speak wisely and well, sometimes about the most difficult subjects.

From the rear cover

In her most affirming and life-changing book yet, Dr. Harriet Lerner teaches us how to restore love and connection with the people who matter the most. In The Dance of Connection we learn what to say (and not say) when:

  • We need an apology, and the person who has harmed us won't apologize or be accountable.
  • We don't know how to take a conversation to the next level when we feel desperate.
  • We feel worn down by the other person's criticism, negativity, or irresponsible behavior.
  • We have been rejected or cut off, and the other person won't show up for the conversation.
  • We are struggling with staying or leaving, and we don't know our "bottom line."
  • We are convinced that we've tried everything -- and nothing changes.

Filled with compelling personal stories and case examples, Lerner outlines bold new "voice lessons" that show us how to speak with honor and personal integrity, even when the other person behaves badly.

Whether we're dealing with a partner, parent, sister, or best friend, The Dance of Connection teaches us how to navigate our most important relationships with clarity, courage, and joyous conviction.

First Edition Identification

The Dance of Connection was first published by Harper Collins in 2001. The first paperback edition was published by Quill in 2002.


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  • Title The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate
  • Author Harriet Lerner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
  • Date 2002-08-06
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780060956165 / 006095616X
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.03 x 5.34 x 0.74 in (20.40 x 13.56 x 1.88 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Interpersonal communication, Intimacy (Psychology)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00054182
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153.6
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