Book excerpt: This book begins with an imaginary marital assessment interview by Dr Lydgate, a flawed psychiatrist with three failed marriages. He interviews imaginary couples from the literary world of relationships like Adam and Eve and Romeo and Juliet to offer the reader insight into marital intimacy. A narrator offers a psychological view of the process. Part two offers information on how to interview couples, assess couples and treat couples by helping them disclose their ideas about relationships from their parents and past experience.