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After the Affair

Online Story

September 19, 2019

After the Affair

Two Case Studies Illustrate the Opportunities Moving Forward

Don-David Lusterman

Editor's Note: This blog is excerpted from a piece that originally appeared in our May/June 1989 issue. Do you think its message is still relevant... Read More
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Magazine Article - Case Study

November 1, 2008

Fantasy in Couples Therapy

Is encouraging sexual fantasies playing with fire?

Tammy Nelson & Don-David Lusterman

Many therapists assume that if they help couples improve their relationships, the improvement will naturally lead to a rewarding erotic life. But what if helping couples create a satisfying erotic life is the key to increasing their feelings of companionship and mutual connection, not the other way around? Read More
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Magazine Article

May 1, 1989

Marriage at the Turning Point

The Affair as Crisis and Opportunity

Don-David Lusterman

Back in the 1950s, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Hollywood's perfect young couple, shocked their fan-magazine public by divorcing after Fisher's scandalous affair with Elizabeth Taylor. In those innocent times, lots of people, myself included, took this spectacle very seriously. Read More

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Don-David Lusterman

Don-David Lusterman, PhD, is adjunct clinical supervisor at the Ferkaug Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University and has taught at Hofstra University. He's the author of Infidelity: A Survival Guide and Bridging Separate Gender Worlds.