This book explores the meaning of love and intimacy from a variety of perspectives, specifically philosophical, psychological and cultural. This volume is a focussed study on what makes them and what may break love and intimacy.
Love and intimacy are central to us, is sought by almost everyone, and while we seem to know what they are, they are not easily described. The present volume includes eleven chapters which are divided into two parts. The first part describes the meaning of love, intimacy, and romantic relations, and the second highlights what may go wrong in such relationships, and why.
The book explores theoretical debates and contemporary research around emotions and will be of interest to students and researchers of psychology, philosophy as well as sex, marriage and family therapists and counselors.
The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Psychology.
Introduction: The intricacies of love and intimacy
1. The Paradox of
Love: A Historical Exploration of Western Philosophical Perspectives on Love,
Exclusion, and Liberatory Potential
2. Love Culturally: How Does Culture
Affect Intimacy, Commitment & Love
3. Romantic Love is Not Only Romantic: A
Grounded Theory Study on Love in Romantic Relationships
4. In Defense of
Moderate Romantic Curiosity and Information Avoidance: A Conceptual Outlook
of Balanced Curiosity
5. Intimacy Behaviors and Relationship Satisfaction for
Cohabitors: Intimate Sacrifices Are Not Always Beneficial
6. Young Love at
Work: Perceived Effects of Workplace Romance among Millennial Generation
Organizational Members
7. Prevalence of Sexting among Greek University
Students: A Matter of Relationships?
8. Do Relationship- and Self-Oriented
Deceptions Impact the Effect of Attitude Alignment on Attraction?
9.
Narcissism in Romantic Relationships: Using Communal Activation to Promote
Relationship Enhancing Attitudes
10. Parental Attachment, Self-Esteem, Social
Problem-Solving, Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in Emerging
Adulthood
11. The Role of Vulnerable and Grandiose Narcissism in
Psychological Perpetrated Abuse Within Couple Relationships: The Mediating
Role of Romantic Jealousy
Ami Rokach is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, teaches in the Psychology Department at York University in Toronto, Canada and is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in loneliness, intimate relationship, anxiety conditions, death and dying.
