Bruce Derman

Bruce Derman is a psychotherapist, mediator, divorce coach, sex therapist, and author who is featured on radio and television.

The Real Diet for Overweight People

Diet from swallowing life and learn to chew things up

Diet from eating other people’s comments and only eat your own thoughts

Diet from building your life around global abstract words like don’t be RUDE and Selfish,

Diet from giving others the vote as to what you do or say

Diet from pissing away or denying your sexuality

Diet from hedging your own power

Diet from personalizing everything

Diet from regarding disappointment, powerlessness, and emptiness as the enemy and seeing them as your best friends

Diet from proving, defending and guarding

Diet from being secretive

Diet from distrusting yourself

Diet from living with one foot in and one foot out and be willing to put two feet in or out

Diet from being ashamed of being ashamed

Diet from being afraid of being afraid and learning to be willing to be afraid

Diet from being inauthentic and incongruent

Diet from not loving yourself

Diet from futurizing or living in the past

Diet from rejecting your sadness, which is the doorway to the depth of your life.

Diet from immediate gratification

A Model for Divorce Mediation with High Conflict Couples

DIGNITY
ECONOMY
AND MUTUAL RESPECT

SO THAT THEY CAN PREVENT
THE WOUNDS OF THE PAST
FROM BECOMING THE SCARS OF THE FUTURE

 

ASK YOURSELF

  • Are you contemplating going through a divorce?
  • Are you not sure if you are ready for the consequences of divorce
  • Are you fearful of the economic, emotional, and psychological damage to your family as a result of a hostile divorce?
  • Are you searching for a way to divorce that will assist you with this process, while also desiring to respect the needs and interests of everyone involved?

If your answers are YES to these questions, then southern california Divorce Mediation can provide you with assistance in resolving the issues

For further clarification click here and see if you relate and identify with the following divorce scenarios

To determine the degree of conflict in your relationship so that you can know what kind of process you will require in your divorce click here.

(818) 375-7194

Transcending the View of Sexual Disorders in Los Angeles

All of us at some time or another are faced with sexual issues that interfere with our sexual relationships, whether it is impotency, premature ejactulations, sexual disinterest, orgastic problems, or just overwhelming fear.  I offer the sexual partners that I work a whole different way of looking at these issues by questioning the sexual definitions that we have all been conditioned to believe in. So in my model, instead of sex being defined by the occurrence of vaginal intercourse, I regard sex as any energy that is exchanged between two people regardless of the form being expressed.  The energy may be sadness, scared, provng, feeling obliged, aggression, or even sexual distinerest. Every part of your humanity offers a possibility to expand what is allowed in your sexual bed. No longer is your bed divided into acceptable behaviors being placed above the bed and unacceptable parts hidden beneath the bed.   By expanding the bed in this way each couple learns to transcend the whole notion of some behaviors being considered disorders and every night or day provides the possibility to be sexual together.  A second change in this model is that orgasms are no longer just seen as one familiar picture. Here orgasm is defined as a 100% of anything you experience, with the emphasis on each person passionately expressing whatever is authentic for them at a given time from head to toe.  From this expansive change in perspective my couples see themselves as sexual everyday, and no longer ask their partners “if they feel sexual tonight. ”

Those who are able to shift their conditioned perspective to the one proposed in this model of sex to fit current times, will feel much freer to be who they are with their partners since their beds will no longer be ruled by judgemental thinking, right and wrong, good and bad, and staying within very familiar boundaries. Some of them are even able to celebrate the title of my chapter on sex in We’d Have A Great Realtionship If it weren’t for You  called the Joy of Unsatisfactory Sex.  Think about it. If doing unsatisfactory sexujal behavior is allowed, how could your time in the bedroom be anything but satisfactory since you no longer have anything to fear or dread.

Interview with Dr. Bruce Derman

For a more in depth elaboration on the following three books by Dr Derman, tune into this radio show featured on KPFK!

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Utilizing the Aikido Philosophy in High Conflict Divorce

USING THE AIKIDO PHILOSOPHY WITH HIGH CONFLICT DIVORCE

BY BRUCE DERMAN, PH.D. AND MARY STODDARD, PH.D.

Divorce is not an easy life passage in the best of circumstances, since it involves making crucial lifetime decisions about marriage, children, money and property at a time in which we all feel very vulnerable and fearful. Despite those dilemmas a somewhat amicable divorce is possible until we add to the mix intense emotional agendas and personality disorders such as narcissistic, borderline and passive-aggressive, or just an overall refusal to cooperate, trust, and participate.
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We Could’ve Had A Great Date if it Weren’t For You

WE COULD’VE HAD A GREAT DATE IF IT WEREN’T FOR YOU:
-A guide to authentic dating 

Dr. Bruce Derman, Author
WE COULD’VE HAD A GREAT DATE IF IT WEREN’T FOR YOU goes beyond other books for singles whose main purpose is to find THE ONE. By changing old, narrow perspectives and attitudes toward dating, a new way is revealed that will replace frustration and discouragement with the dating process to one of acceptance, accountability, respect, and fulfillment.



$19.50 (incl. tax)
 


In this book you’ll discover which of the fifteen Dating Plans best fits who you are. You’ll learn who to play with. You’ll find new satisfaction in dating that supports and reflects your personal and emotional integrity. You’ll eliminate unpleasant dating surprises by finding out in advance what to expect with each plan.

As you learn this new way of viewing dating and relationships, you will discover:

  • There are no wrong people
  • There are no bad dates
  • There are no unsuccessful relationships
  • There are no unavailable people

So here is a chance to leave the limitations of “one size fits all” dating attitudes behind, and begin to enjoy authentic dating for possibly the first time.

The Hole

THE HOLE is a fable that dares to go where no fable has gone before….

Into the depths of our emptiness and nothingness where we fear that life is meaningless.
It is clearly a place that is largely unknown to many of us and thus exposes us to our
greatest fears, especially during times of great loss. Yet without a willingness to go
through this door, we are destined to live in constant turmoil as we ride on an endless
emotional roller coaster. Dirk and Dawn, to all appearances a perfect couple, certainly
never wanted to go there. However, when confronted with an empty, bottomless hole
in their home, they had no choice but to face all the dilemmas it presented them. You will
be amused at all of the solutions that they attempt to use to fill the hole, many of which
you will identify as choices you have made in your own life. With the help of a wise little
man, who understands the nature of empty holes, you will experience their ongoing
struggles in a continuously challenging dialogue with him that will appear at times humorous
and transforming. If you can move through this journey with them and come to totally
accept your own emptiness, you will discover a love, passion, and power that will serve
as a guide for the rest of your life.


$13.00 (incl. tax)

 


We’d Have a Great Relationship if it Weren’t for You.

WE’D HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP IF IT WEREN’T FOR YOU: Regaining Love and Intimacy Through Mutuality  Dr. Bruce Derman, Author How often have you wanted to say: We’d have a great relationship if it weren’t for you with no hedging or justifications? For those who think that is being negative, the problem is not in the statement but in all the exhausting, disguised, and devious gyrations we go through to attempt to prove it rather than just be open about this thought. $14.00 (incl. tax)  

This book provides you with the support to drop all pretenses with your partners in a loving, respectful, yet fresh and passionate way. It offers you a new way to look at yourself and your partner so that you can move beyond the places where you are stuck.  Is Your Relationship Stuck in the Difference Game? All intimate relationships that are painful, chaotic, or stuck have one thing in common: the partners involved focus on their differences to prove that “one of us is better than the other.” To protect themselves from the fear and vulnerability of greater intimacy, they sacrifice their love, passion, and closeness. Continue reading

Characteristics of the Difference Game and Mutuality

Characteristics of the Difference Game and Mutuality Continue reading

We could’ve had a great date if it weren’t for you

We could’ve had a great date if it weren’t for you
by Dr. Bruce Derman

Most every book that has been written to assist single people who are struggling with dating and relationships has two things in common. Continue reading

Books

AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. BRUCE DERMAN, DISCUSSING HIS THREE BOOKS:



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WE'D HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU...Read More



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WE'D HAVE A GREAT DATE IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU...Read More


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THE HOLE...Read More


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