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Dr. Willard Harley
His Needs, Her Needs ...
Willard F. Harley, Jr., Ph.D. is best known as author of the
internationally best selling book, His Needs, Her Needs: Building
An Affair-proof Marriage. The hard-cover American edition alone
has sold over one million copies, and it is has also available
in paperback and sixteen foreign translations. Every year for
the past fifteen consecutive years more copies of this book
have been sold than in each previous year
Dr. Harley earned a Ph.D. degree in psychology from the University
of California at Santa Barbara in 1967 and has been a Licensed
Psychologist since 1975. For the first ten years after earning
his degree, he taught psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels. During those years, he was also a frustrated part-time
marriage counselor with little success in helping couples.
In 1973 he discovered that he was not alone in his failure to
save marriages -- almost everyone in the marital therapy profession
were also failing. So he spent the next two years designing
an entirely new approach. When his success rate climbed to over
90% in 1977, he resigned from his teaching position to counsel
full-time. Over the next ten years his solo practice developed
into the largest network of mental health clinics in Minnesota
(thirty-two locations) with over one hundred psychiatrists,
psychologists, social workers and chemical dependency counselors
working with him to provided a full range of mental health services.
He became the exclusive provider of mental health and chemical
dependency services in ten counties, and had offices in other
counties as well.
Dr. Harley and his wife, Joyce, appear together several times
a year in various cities for Marriage
Builders Weekend, which introduces couples to his highly
successful plan for marital recovery. The weekend kicks off
a one-year home study program that includes personal accountability.
He also answers questions every Monday and Thursday, on "Marriage
Talk," a live radio call-in show broadcast on AM980 KKMS in
Minneapolis.
Dr. and Mrs. Harley have been married for 40 years and live
in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. They have two adult children,
who are now working with them as marriage counselors, and four
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