In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach To Diagnosis And Treatment In Couples Therapy

Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., is in private practice and is the director of The Couples Institute in Menlo Park, California. Ellyn and her husband, Dr. Peter Pearson, are co-creators of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. Over the past 37 years, she has conducted professional training programs in couples therapy and has trained therapists throughout the United States as well as Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia.

Peter Pearson, Ph.D., is co-founder of The Couples Institute and co-creator
of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. For more than four decades,
he specialized in working with highly distressed and challenging couples and
in training therapists around the world to become more effective, courageous,
and skillful with couples. His professional fascination has always been and will
always be with the couples who are hardest to help. He is also co-author of Tell
Me No Lies: How to Face the Truth and Build a Loving Marriage.