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love, while problems, power struggles and other such things

creep in from every hole and crack. Except we were aware of

it.” His wife, Segal tells me, was never afraid to go to

workshops and therapy, “Like any psychologist does and loves”,

but he despised them himself. “I said that I, with my experience,

don’t need it”. Eventually he agreed to go to one workshop. It

was a workshop given by Hadi and Yomi Shleifer, American

Jews who have been hosting workshops in the ‘Imago’

technique in Israel for over 15 years. “We took this workshop,

and then I saw that not only is there hope and wisdom, but there

is exceptional exercising as well”. Later, Segal went through an

intensive one-year training to be able to host the workshops

himself.

Segal doesn’t think that the Imago technique reveals a new

world. “If a person wants love and a true acquaintance with his

or her spouse, there are things that you should do and things you

should not”. These things were not invented by Hendrix (the

founder of the technique), the Shleifers or by Yonatan Segal.

“All of these things are written in the Torah and in the Bible,

and in all the Philosophies. But somehow it goes in one ear and

straight out the other, and maybe a more modern technique is

needed to persuade people that they should use these things”.

Segal explains that the name for the Imago technique comes

from the word ‘image’. It essentially means the images of our

parents, which have been imprinted into our personalities,

whether we are aware of it or not. “It is well known, that a

person who has reached the age of 20 is a result of education,

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