Gottman created an atmosphere which provided couples, both married or not an understanding on martial stability and relationship analysis. “Gottman is a 56-year-old professor of psychology and the codirector of the Gottman Institute, where he counsels couples …show more content…
Unlike Gottman, earlier socialist and psychologist focused on mate selection; the personality of who marries who, where and whether an individual flourishes or not. Gottman looked at the bigger picture, what ways to make the relationship thrive. When taking a look at “The Love Lab,” and comparing Nathan Ackerman, a psychologist for both family and couple therapy, he took a shift towards aiming family therapy in order to create clinical approaches to clinical problems. As family and couple therapy psychologist would put it, "two neurotics can be happily married,” (Ackerman, 1982). In the end, whether we believe or follow Gottmans study or not, we must understand there is so much more to making a relationship. I believe Gottmans “Love Lab,” definitely presented some very powerful and insightful