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The Dance of Intimacy By: Harriet Lerner Why I chose this book… At first glance of the bibliography of possible books for this course, I was leaning towards those regarding families and/or adolescence. After noticing someone had signed up for my first choice, Reviving Ophelia, I decided to go a different direction. With my future goals in mind of mastering in Marriage and Family Therapy, I chose a book which would be applicable to a core issue I am certain all couples face and some incur challenges in, intimacy. This book was noted as a self-improvement selection, which of course would do me no harm considering I am currently in a long-term relationship and approaching, slowly, but nonetheless, my ideal age of marriage. Another reason I choose this book, was at the time, subconscious. My mother has always been big into self-improvement books, in fact, she has a small library of them at home, one of which is The Dance of Anger, a book written by the same author regarding issues within relationships as well. I have always been curious as to why she indulged herself in such readings and admittedly consider myself a skeptic of self-help books, therefore, I decided to give it a try and formulate an opinion based on my own experien