John Gottman

 ( 21st-century American Psychologists ) 

John Mordechai Gottman (born April 26, 1942) is an American psychologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington. His research focuses on divorce prediction and marital stability through relationship analyses. Gottman's work is centered on the field of relationship counseling: enhanced relationship functioning and mitigation of behaviors detrimental to human relationships.The Gottman Institute. Online Abstracts of Published Research Articles. Accessed online 14 October 2008. Gottman's work has also contributed to the development of important concepts on social sequence analysis.

In 1996,John Gottman. John Gottman, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist . Accessed online 14 October 2008. Gottman co-founded and led The Gottman Institute alongside his wife, psychologist Julie Schwartz Gottman. Together, they are the co-founders of Affective Software Inc., a program seeking to make marriage and relationship counseling procedures more accessible to a broader audience.

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Personal life John Gottman was born on April 26, 1942, in the Dominican Republic to Orthodox Judaism parents. His father was a rabbi in pre-World War II Vienna. Gottman was educated in a Lubavitch Yeshiva Elementary School in Brooklyn. Gottman practices Conservative Judaism, keeps Kashrut (follows Jewish dietary laws) and observes Shabbat.

In 1987, he married Julie Schwartz, a psychotherapist. His two previous marriages had ended in divorce. He has a daughter named Moriah Gottman.

John and Julie Gottman live in Washington state.

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Education and work experience John Gottman received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics-Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1962. In 1964, he earned his master's in Mathematics-Psychology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a second master's degree in Clinical Psychology-Mathematics in 1967, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin.

At Fairleigh Dickinson University, Gottman worked as an instructor for the mathematics department, a research assistant for the department of physics, and a researcher for the school of engineering. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, he worked as a computer programmer and mathematician. He was a program evaluator and research designer for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. In 1981, Gottman became a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Additionally, he was a professor of psychology at the University of Washington for 16 years. Since 2002, Gottman has worked as the emeritus Professor of Psychology for the University of Washington and as the executive director for the Relationship Research Institute in Seattle.

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Awards and honors

Gottman has been the recipient of four National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Awards: the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Distinguished Research Scientist Award, the American Family Therapy Academy American Family Therapy Academy website Award for Most Distinguished Contributor to Family Systems Research, the American Psychological Association Division of Family Psychology, Presidential Citation for Outstanding Lifetime Research Contribution and the National Council of Family Relations, 1994 Burgess Award for Outstanding Career in Theory and Research. "About John Gottman" on the Gottman Institute website In addition, Gottman takes a spot in the Psychotherapy Networker's Top 10 Most Influential Therapists of the past quarter-century.

In 2021, Gottman received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Works

Gottman has published over 190 papers, and is the author or co-author of 40 books, notably:

• (1994). 9780671867485, Simon & Schuster. . ISBN 9780671867485
• (1997). 9780684801308, Simon & Schuster. . ISBN 9780684801308
• The Marriage Clinic (W.W. Norton, 1999), W W Norton page
• (1999). 9780609805794, Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780609805794
  – a New York Times bestseller
• (2025). 9780609608098, Crown Publishers. . ISBN 9780609608098
• (2025). 9780739332375, Random House Audio. ISBN 9780739332375
• (2025). 9781400097388, Three Rivers Press. . ISBN 9781400097388
• Gottman, John (2025). 9780393705959, W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393705959
• (2025). 9781451608489, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781451608489
• Gottman, John; Gottman, Julie Schwartz (2015). 10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
• (2025). 9781623361846, Rodale. ISBN 9781623361846
• (2025). 9780393712742, W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393712742
• (2025). 9780241988350, Penguin Books, Limited. ISBN 9780241988350

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See also

• Thin-slicing
• Julie Shwartz Gottman

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External links

• The Gottman Institute website
• The Mathematics of Love - An interview (Edge)
• An Interview with John Gottman (Psychotherapy.net)
• Gottman's Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work - Commentary from 50 Psychology Classics (2007)
• John Gottman: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child KUOW-FM Speaker Forum
• John Gottman : Couples workshop training first time in London United Kingdom in 2013

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