Contact: The First Four Minutes

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CONTACT
The First Four Minutes
How to develop and improve techniques for establishing and strengthening meaningful human relationships during the first few minutes of an encounter with strangers, friends and loved ones.
In this fast-moving world where we "touch and go," it can be extremely difficult to develop meaningful and enduring relationships or, for that matter, to continue those we already value. And that is why, contends Dr. Leonard M. Zunin, the first few minutes of contact between two people are so crucial. For what is communicated in that period of time will usually determine whether or not strangers become acquaintances, friends, lovers, lifetime mates—or remain strangers.
Dr. Zunin's objective is to help you gain greater awareness of who you are, and more control over how you communicate with and influence other people, to increase the depth of your interactions through an increased knowledge of yourself and others. He discusses the assumptions and prejudgments we... Tovább

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CONTACT
The First Four Minutes
How to develop and improve techniques for establishing and strengthening meaningful human relationships during the first few minutes of an encounter with strangers, friends and loved ones.
In this fast-moving world where we "touch and go," it can be extremely difficult to develop meaningful and enduring relationships or, for that matter, to continue those we already value. And that is why, contends Dr. Leonard M. Zunin, the first few minutes of contact between two people are so crucial. For what is communicated in that period of time will usually determine whether or not strangers become acquaintances, friends, lovers, lifetime mates—or remain strangers.
Dr. Zunin's objective is to help you gain greater awareness of who you are, and more control over how you communicate with and influence other people, to increase the depth of your interactions through an increased knowledge of yourself and others. He discusses the assumptions and prejudgments we make about people and how they influence a relation-ship. He deals extensively with self-evaluation in regard to prejudices, values and attitudes, and shows how you can learn to become more flexible in your approach to people.
indeed, the way you handle your initial contact with people, the first four minutes of an encounter, is one of the keys to the door of social success, family harmony, business achievement and to some
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extent, sexual satisfaction. Dr. Zunin discusses each one of these types of interpersonal relations in depth. He also provides contact exercises which examine the many forms of verbal and nonverbal communication.
Leonard Zunin,M.D.,is founder anddirec-tor of Human Relations Consultants of j West Los Angeles, and a psychiatrist in private practice. He is a consultant to and a former director of the Institute for Reality Therapy in Los Angeles. He lectures widely to both professional and lay , audiences on a variety of subjects and has served as a consultant to numerous organizations in mental health, business, education and corrections. He has pub- | lished several articles and contributed chapters to a number of books.
Dr. Zunin was born in New York in 1936. He obtained his bachelor'sdegree from the University of Arizona and completed his medical and psychiatric training at UCLA Medical School. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He was founder and director of Operation Second Life (a group program for women who lost their husbands in Vietnam) and a consultant regarding the POW rehabilitation program.
Natalie Bell Zunin is a homemaker and dental assistant, as well as a group facilitator at EX-HELPS, a crisis intervention center for teens in Santa Monica, California. She was born in 1937 in New York City. The Zunins were married for 17 years and have three children. They reside separately in Los Angeles.
Leonard Zunin photo by Noel K. Rubaloff Natlie Zunin photo by Ron Rubenstein
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