Knowing and Not Knowing in Intimate Relationships

A comprehensive exploration of knowing and not knowing, being known and not known in intimate relationships.

List of contents

1. Knowing and not knowing are central to intimacy; 2. How couples build knowledge of one another; 3. How well do you know each other? About 90%; 4. Concerns about the other's potential reaction to something not yet revealed; 5. What people cannot or would rather not know; 6. Processes in being a judicious nondiscloser; 7. Discovery of lies and secrets; 8. Gender differences in intimate knowing; 9. Family of origin; 10. Is it good to know and be known extremely well?; 11. Phenomenology of knowing and being known.

About the author

Paul C. Rosenblatt is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He has published eleven other books, most recently Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems (2009), Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing (2006) and African American Grief (with Beverly R. Wallace, 2005). Two in a Bed has brought him 180 media interviews from roughly two dozen countries, including substantial coverage in major media outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, the BBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Company and The Times of India. He has won college, university and national awards for his teaching, and several of his previous books have received awards. He has taught primarily in the family field but also in psychology, sociology and anthropology.

Summary

Based on intensive interviews with thirty-seven adults, this book explores knowing and not knowing as central to couple relationships. Its qualitative, phenomenological approach builds on and adds to the largely quantitative social psychological, communications and family field literature to offer a new and accessible insight into the experience of intimacy.

Product details

• Authors: Paul C Rosenblatt, Paul C. Rosenblatt, Paul C. (University of Minnesota) Rosenblatt, Paul C. (University of Minnesota) Wiel Rosenblatt, Paul C. Wieling Rosenblatt, Elizabeth Wieling, Elizabeth (University of Minnesota) Wieling
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107041325
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04132-5
• No. of pages: 205
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science