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Oxford University Press, USA The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships provides the best, most in-depth, and most comprehensive summary of the study of close relationships. The book is divided into eight sections: introductory comments, major theoretical approaches to relationships, attraction in relationships, models of relationship functioning and processes, daily relationship functioning, psychological and physical well-being in relationships, relationships across development and time, and concluding comments. The 37 chapters showcase the most important classic and contemporary theories, models, and empirical research that have been conducted across three dozen major topic areas within the field of close relationships. Chapter topics range in scope from evolutionary approaches to understanding relationships, the battle between the sexes, cultural influences on relationships, female sexuality, personality in relationships, intimate partner violence, relationships and health, social development, and adult relatiTable of ContentsPart One: Introduction to the Volume ; 1. The Blossoming of Relationship Science ; Lorne Campbell and Jeffry A. Simpson ; Part Two: Major Theoretical Approaches to Relationships ; 2. Relationships from an Evolutionary Life History Perspective ; Douglas T. Kenrick, Steven L. Neuberg, and Andrew E. White ; 3. An Interdependence Theory Analysis of Close Relationships ; Ximena B. Arriaga ; 4. The Role of Attachment Security in Adolescent and Adult Close Relationships ; Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver ; 5. The Self-Expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships ; Arthur Aron, Gary W. Lewandowski Jr., Debra Mashek, and Elaine N. Aron ; 6. Regulating Interpersonal Risk ; Justin V. Cavallo, Sandra L. Murray, and John G. Holmes ; Part Three: Attraction in Relationships ; 7. Love is a battlefield: Romantic Attraction, Intrasexual Competition, and Conflict between the Sexes ; Jon K. Maner and Joshua M. Ackerman ; 8. Cultural Influences on Attraction ; Paul W. Eastwick ; 9. Implicit Theories of Relationships: Destiny and Growth Beliefs ; C. Raymond Knee and Kristen N. Petty ; Part Four: Models of Relationship Functioning and Processes ; 10. The Social Psychology of Love ; Beverley Fehr ; 11. Error Management in Relationships ; Martie G. Haselton and Andrew Galperin ; 12. Communal (and Other) Relationships: History, Theory Development, Recent Findings, and Future Directions ; Margaret S. Clark and Oriana R. Aragon ; 13. Transference and the Relational Self ; Serena Chen, Helen C. Boucher, Susan M. Andersen, and S. Adil Saribay ; 14. Love, Reality, and Illusion in Intimate Relationships ; Garth Fletcher and Patrick Kerr ; 15. Motivations for Promotion or Prevention in Close Relationships ; Daniel C. Molden and Heike A. Winterheld ; 16. Empathic Accuracy in Close Relationships ; William Ickes and Sara D. Hodges ; 17. The Nature of Female Sexuality: Insights into the Dynamics of Romantic Relationships ; Steven W. Gangestad and Christine E. Garver-Apgar ; 18. Responsiveness ; Harry T. Reis and Margaret S. Clark ; Part Five: Daily Relationship Functioning ; 19. Regulation Processes in Close Relationships ; Nickola C. Overall and Jeffry A. Simpson ; 20. Intimate Partner Violence ; Eli J. Finkel and Christopher I. Eckhardt ; 21. Implicit Cognition and Relationship Processes ; Rainer Banse and Roland Imhoff ; 22. Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships ; Tammy English, Oliver P. John, and James J. Gross ; 23. Emotion in Relationships ; Leanne K. Knobloch and Sandra Metts ; 24. Personality and Relationships ; James K. McNulty ; 25. Interdependence Revisited: Perspectives from Cultural Psychology ; Stanley O. Gaines Jr. and Deletha P. Hardin ; 26. Relationship Maintenance Processes ; John E. Lydon and Sara K. Quinn ; 27. Sexuality in Relationships ; Lisa M. Diamond ; Part Six: Psychological and Physical Well-Being in Relationships ; 28. Romantic Relationships and Health ; Timothy J. Loving and Richard Slatcher ; 29. Gratitude and Forgiveness in Relationships ; Frank D. Fincham and Steven R.H. Beach ; 30. Couples and Stress: How Demands Outside a Relationship Affect Intimacy within the Relationship ; Benjamin R. Karney and Lisa A. Neff ; 31. Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Relationships ; Lane Beckes and James A. Coan ; 32. Social Support Processes in Relationships ; Brian Lakey ; Part Seven: Relationships Across Development and Time ; 33. Repeated Measures with Dyads ; Tessa V. West ; 34. What's Past is Prologue: Social Developmental Antecedents of Close Relationships ; Katherine C. Haydon and Glenn I. Roisman ; 35. The Development of Human Reproductive Strategies: Toward an Integration of Life History and Sexual Selection Models ; Jenee James and Bruce J. Ellis ; 36. Divorce and Close Relationships: Findings, Themes, and Future Directions ; David A. Sbarra and Connie J.A. Beck ; Part Eight: Capstone ; 37. The Waving of the Relationship Flag ; Jeffry A. Simpson and Lorne Campbell
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Pole Dancing Empowerment and Embodiment
Book SynopsisThis book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and gender, and age and fitness. In particular, the book explores how women initiate agency and espouse liberation and empowerment through something as seemingly problematic as pole classes.Trade Review'This book pays much needed attention to a fascinating phenomenon emerging from striptease culture and the mainstreaming of sex...Holland's cutting-edge ethnography illuminates brilliantly the complexities of feminized and embodied empowerment swirling around these poles, as women from all walks of life explore this new form of exercise and self-expression. 'Poler' is now a new word in my vocabulary!' - Catherine M. Roach, Associate Professor, New College, University of Alabama, USA 'Pole Dancing, Empowerment and Embodiment is accessibly and appealingly written...[offering] a fresh perspective and much needed empirical contribution to current debates around the sexualisation of culture.' - Sociological Research OnlineTable of ContentsIntroduction Towards a Feminist Ethnography From Circus& Sex … … to Fitness& Leisure What is a Pole Class? What Not to Wear Diversity& Empowerment? A Thing of Beauty' The Pole Community: Opening Closed Minds Case Study I: 'Empowering women with confidence' Case Study II: Power Moves& Everyday Bodies Conclusions: A Positive Active Identity? Appendix I: Questions for online questionnaire and statistics of responses Appendix II: Websites of Instructors Who Took Part + Schools Mentioned Bibliography Index
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ABC-CLIO Sex and Love
Book SynopsisProfessionals can use this resource in their clinical practice to identify and assist sex and love addicts.Griffin-Shelley clearly describes the behavior of sex and love addicts and the emotions they may be experiencing.Table of ContentsIntroduction What Is a Sex and Love Addiction? The Disease Concept of Addictions Short-Term Treatment and Recovery Long-Term Treatment and Recovery Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press Feminism Psychoanalytic Theory
Book SynopsisA series of essays that aim to elucidate how the unconscious awareness of self and gender we develop from earliest infancy continues to shape both our experiences as men and women and the patterns of inequality and difference that permeate our society and culture.
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Yale University Press Splitting
Book SynopsisThis text is a case study of a woman, otherwise intelligent and apparently sane, who was convinced that she had internally a full set of functioning male sex organs. This account of her diagnosis and treatment is illustrated by excerpts from the patient-analyst dialogue during her therapy.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Becoming Gay
Book SynopsisNow revised and updated for the 21st-century, Becoming Gay is the classic guide on how to accept one's homosexuality. By exploring the psychological development of gay men through personal case histories—including his own—Dr. Isay shows how disguising one's sexual identity can induce anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Individual chapters tackle acceptance in any stage or circumstance of life, whether it be adolescence, married-with-children, retirement age, or living with HIV and AIDS. Dr. Isay's insights provide invaluable support to gay men and will enliven families, friends, and therapists who want to better understand the process of coming out and help their loved ones or patients to embrace a positive gay identity.
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St Martin's Press What Happy Women Know How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can Change Womens Lives for the Better
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Little, Brown & Company Masters and Johnson on Sex and Human Loving
Book SynopsisSurveys the entire cross section of sexual topics from the mechanics of reproduction to sexually transmitted diseases and sexual abuse of children.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Future Sex
Book SynopsisA funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single woman
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W. W. Norton & Company Constructing the Sexual Crucible
Book SynopsisThis book challenges the fundamental paradigms in sexual-marital therapies, and provides a fresh look at the nature of intimacy and the diverse barriers to eroticism in many marriages.
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Penguin Young Readers This Is Your Brain on Birth Control
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than ever before, and there's good reason to believe that the birth control pill has a lot to do with this. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye.Although women go on the pill for a small handful of targeted effects (pregnancy prevention and clearer skin, yay!), sex hormones can't work that way. Sex hormones impact the activities of billions of cells in the body at once, many of which are in the brain. There, they play a role in influencing attraction, sexual motivation, stress, hunger, eating patterns, emotion regulation, friendships, aggression, mood, learning, and more. This means that being on the birth control pill makes women a different version of themselves than when they are off of it. And this is a big deal. For instance, women on the pill have a dampened cortisol spike in response to stress. While this might sound great (no stress!), it can have negative implications for learning, memory, and mood. Additionally, because the pill influences who women are attracted to, being on the pill may inadvertently influence who women choose as partners, which can have important implications for their relationships once they go off it. Sometimes these changes are for the better . . . but other times, they're for the worse. By changing what women's brains do, the pill also has the ability to have cascading effects on everything and everyone that a woman encounters. This means that the reach of the pill extends far beyond women's own bodies, having a major impact on society and the world. This paradigm-shattering book provides an even-handed, science-based understanding of who women are, both on and off the pill. It will change the way that women think about their hormones and how they view themselves. It also serves as a rallying cry for women to demand more information from science about how their bodies and brains work and to advocate for better research. This book will help women make more informed decisions about their health, whether they're on the pill or off of it.
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iUniverse Three In Love Mnages Trois from Ancient to Modern Times Menages a Trois from Ancient to Modern Times
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Backinprint.com The Woman in the Mirror Analytical Psychology and the Feminine
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Random House USA Inc The History of Sexuality an Introduction 001
Book SynopsisWhy we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century.Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
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Hachette Go Tell Me What You Want
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AuthorHouse Secrets of a Professional Matchmaker
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Jason Aronson, Inc. The Sexual Relationship
Book SynopsisDr. David Scharff explores the role of sexuality in human relationships by combining his extensive experience in individual, marital, family, and sex therapy with theoretical contributions from object relations theory and child development.Trade ReviewScharff shows how sexual union gives us the repeated opportunity to return to the source of our most profound instinctual needs so that we can find there the nourishment for emotional renewal through a harmonious interplay of our internal object relations. . . . Scharff sees patients with problems in sexually relating as needing help in finding out how to translate the problems into emotional equivalents that are susceptible to therapeutic change. . . . The family group offers the means of working through a second time in adulthood what went wrong the first time in childhood, by continued object seeking, finding, and repairing. It is the unique situation in which transferences can be creatively satisfied. -- Andrew Powell
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Beacon Press Desire
Book SynopsisA radically inclusive, sex-positive guide to managing the inevitable libido differences in our relationships, authored by two certified sex therapists who are passionate about good sex Desire invites readers of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, and relationship structures to shed the shame and misinformation that surround the topic of sex and instead learn from 2 certified sex therapists about how libido really works. Desire differences are one of the most common relationship issues, yet, with fewer than 1,100 certified sex therapists in the country, it can be difficult to find help. This essential book breaks the mold of the sex self-help genre, which typically focuses only on cisgender women. Through the authors’ expert guidance readers will learn about embracing a more expansive definition of sex, identifying various factors that can impact libido, managing anxiety around sex (one of the biggest libido killers
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New York University Press Changing Our Minds Lesbian Feminism and Psychology 16 The Cutting Edge Lesbian Life and Literature Series
Book SynopsisWomen today are being instructed on how they can raise their self-esteem, love their inner child, survive their toxic families, overcome codependency, and experience a revolution from within. By holding up the ideal of a pure and happy inner core, psychotherapists refuse to acknowledge that a certain degree of unhappiness or dissatisfaction is a routine part of life and not necessarily a cause for therapy. Lesbians specifically are now guided to define themselves according to their frailties, inadequacies, and insecurities. An incisive critique of contemporary feminist psychology and therapy, Changing our Minds argues not just that the current practice of psychology is flawed, but that the whole idea of psychology runs counter to many tenets of lesbian feminist politics. Recognizing that many lesbians do feel unhappy and experience a range of problems that detract from their well-being, Changing Our Minds makes positive, prescriptive suggestions for non-psychological ways of understandTrade Review"Changing Our Minds is a brave, invigorating, and important book... essential reading for anyone in, or anyone who studies, the helping professions; it is even more essential for any woman in distress who wants 'help'." -Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D,author of Women and Madness, About Men, and Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody "A wide-ranging, hard-hitting analysis of psychology and its dangers. Changing Our Minds should be compulsory reading for all psychologists and deserves a place on every feminist's bookshelf." -Sue Wilkinson,editor of Feminism & Psychology: An International Journal "Thoughtful, probing, and caring... Destined for distinction as one of the best books of the year." -Janice G. Raymond,author of Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women's Freedom and A Passion for Friends
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Penguin Random House LLC SameSex Love And the Path to Wholeness
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Fisher King Press Tantra Erotic Trance Volume One Outer Work Volume 1
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Fisher King Press Tantra Erotic Trance Volume Two Inner Work Volume 2
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Gentle Path Press (imprint of New Freedom Publications) Facing the Shadow Starting Sexual and
Book SynopsisThe groundbreaking book introducing Dr. Patrick Carnes' thirty-task model for treating sexual addiction is now UPDATED and REVISED.
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Volossal Publishing Fetish and You
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Liberal Mind Publishers Shame and Attachment Loss
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