The Formula
How I Found It and What It Can Do for You
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Aze Fellner
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Bernard Bushell
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"Part life story and part life advice, The Formula offers an immensely lucid and listenable account of how the sexes relate to each other, and how the partners in a relationship can understand and empathize with each other to harmonious effect. Bernard Bushell combines anecdote, personal revelation, social commentary and psychological insight in a compact, entertaining and yet pragmatic synthesis: he helps us all." - Gareth D. Williams, PhD, Professor, Columbia University
"An excellent self-help book, its wisdom shared in the context of a well-written, eminently readable life story!" - Mathilda B. Canter, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, past president, Division of Psychotherapy, American Psychological Association
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