Books by John Mordechai Gottman

This text describes research on the emotional communication between parents and children, and its effect on the children's emotional development. Inspired by the work of Dr. Haim Ginott, it presents the result of initial exploratory work with meta-emotion - feelings about feelings.

In the observational study of social systems, the major conceptual innovation of the last century was General Systems Theory. Yet the General Systems Theory conceptions of interacting social systems were doomed to remain at the prescientific level of metaphor until a set of statistical techniques were developed and applied.