February 20, 2005
Gottman Institute
You know who has really good google placement for the term, "relationship research"? these guys. Seriously, they are #2 on google, and it looks to me like they are essentially just a married couple with a website. Granted, they have Ph.Ds. And they are still married. And they have a few publications (or he does, anyway). But other than that, what have they got over us? Well, they also have a small stable of therapists certified in their methods, which they then very link to on their flash map, including a therapist who describe himself as, "eclectic, with training in EMDR, hypnosis, and psychodynamic psychotherapy," but it looks to me like these are probably just people who took a seminar and then got themselves linked.
It's not that they don't have some interesting research to report on; it's just that I'd think that publishing a few papers as an individual and offering a few seminars does not an institute make -- but obviously I'm wrong about that! Maybe instead of marrying, patenting, or incorporating as a form of symbolizing our commitment to each other, Chris and I should have formed an institute. Maybe it's not too late? But at this point it would be a platonic institute, and where's the fun in that? I like my institutes sexy, just like I like my germans.
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