{"product_id":"a-psychosocial-exploration-of-love-and-intimacy-9781349544592","title":"A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrganised around a single question: is love possible?, Brown's book provides conceptualisations of love and its possibility from sociological, philosophical and psychoanalytic viewpoints. She argues for the importance of a psychosocial understanding of love and provides a critical discussion of the philosophy and methods of Psychosocial Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brown...provide[s] insightful reflections on the phenomenology of love...and offers a helpful reflection on the links between ethnography and psychoanalysis. Overall, Brown's foray into the chaotic and poetic sources of love and its role in society serves as a valuable contrast to currently fashionable quantatative and neurological reductionism.\" - C.J. Churchill, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Choice Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements PART 1: INTRODUCTION The Demise of Romantic Love A Psychosocial Approach to Emotional Life PART 2: LOVE IDEALS Modern Love: Sociological Approaches Love as Bad Faith: Philosophical Approaches Transference Love: A Freudian Approach Reparative Love: A Kleinian Approach Reflexive Love Sociological and Psychoanalytic Insights PART 3: METHODS AND FINDINGS A Psychosocial Approach to Biographical Studies and Reflexive Research Personal Accounts of Love: Details of Method Love and War: Eighty Something Reflections on Romance Love and Peace: Thirty Something Reflections on Romance PART 4: CONCLUSION Conclusion Notes References Index","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742425776471,"sku":"9781349544592","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781349544592.jpg?v=1758384910","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-psychosocial-exploration-of-love-and-intimacy-9781349544592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}