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About Peter Gerlach, MSW
Expertise
I can answer questions about how to significantly improve your thinking and communication effectiveness, and your relations with adults and kids. I cannot answer legal, medical, grammar, punctuation, spelling, or spiritual questions.

Experience

I have studied and taught communication and relationship skills for 40 years, and have been a professional family-systems therapist (MSW) since 1981.

Organizations

I am a past Board member of (a) a large suburban community mental-health center and (b) the Stepfamily Association of America, and I am a current member of the National Stepfmily Resource Center (NSRC) Experts Council

Publications
I have published 6 books, including one on communication skills: "Satisfactions" (Xlibris.com 2002); and over 150 articles in the nonprofit educational Website Break the Cycle! - www.sfhelp.com

I have also published articles for Selfgrowth.com

Education/Credentials
BSME, Stanford University, 1959 MSW, George Williams College 1981 Clinical internship U. of Illinois Institute for Juvenile Reasearch (IJR) 1981 Over 100 post-grad courses on a wide range of human-relationship topics

Past/Present Clients
over 1,000 self-referred Midwestern-U.S. adults, kids, couples, and families

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Communication Skills - question regarding generalization

Expert: Peter Gerlach, MSW - 10/29/2009

Question
I met one girl on the Internet and I really love her, one time I ask a question "why foreigner think that western woman are liberated?" she said why did you generalize western woman? i said no but she still insist that my question is misleading or not correct. when i say foreigner means all foreigner.. i just want to prove to her that my question is correct

Answer
Hi Albert - sounds to me like it would help if you both agree on (a) who "foreigners" are (foreign compared to whom?), (b) who "Western women" are, and (c) what "liberated" means. I think the issue is not "correctness," but confusion over terms. - Pete

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