Alon Gratch is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York. In his pyschotherapy practice he sees patients for individual, couple, and group therapy. He has been on the faculty of Columbia University and has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Gratch is also a management consultant, working with corporations in the areas of leadership, negotiations, and crisis management.

About his book If Love Could Think A groundbreaking book about why the one thing we all fear-ambivalence-is the one thing we must accept to find lasting love. If Love Could Think is an entertaining and practical book that addresses with warmth and intelligence the age-old question relevant to any stage of a relationship: why does love go wrong, and what can we do to make it right After many years of treating patients with relationship problems, psychologist Alon Gratch has identified seven common patterns of failed love. These patterns include, for example, narcissistic love, when a person has so idealized the partner and the relationship that they can't possibly continue to measure up; one-way love, when a person loves someone who doesn't return that love; triangular love, when a third party, be it a mother, an affair, or a job is involved in the relationship; and forbidden love, the kind of relationship that is generally off-limits, such as when a teacher dates a student. In If Love Could Think, Gratch shows us that all of these patterns stem from one fundamental problem-our own ambivalence.