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This groundbreaking look at the array of styles and modes of relationships proposes a new paradigm for understanding intimate relationships, challenging the monogamy/polyamory binary and offering fresh possibilities for thinking about contemporary love, sex, gender, and sexuality.
List of contents
Introduction
1 Relational Freedom and the Crisis of Modern Relationships
2 Mononormativity, Polypride, and the "Mono-Poly Wars"
3 Sympathetic Joy: Beyond Jealousy, Toward Relational Freedom
4 The Dawn of Transbinary Relationships
5 Relational Freedom and the Transformation of Intimate Relationships
Coda: After Covid-19
Appendix I: Ten Theses on Relationships Styles
Appendix II: The Alpha Male versus the Omega Man
References
Index
About the author
Jorge N. Ferrer is a clinical psychologist, author, and educator. He was a professor of psychology for more than 20 years at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where he also served as chair of the Department of East–West Psychology. He has published several books and many articles on psychology, education, and religious studies, and his work on alternative intimate relationships has been featured in journals such as Sexuality and Culture and Psychology and Sexuality. Ferrer was an advisor to the Religions for Peace organization at the United Nations. He coined the term "novogamy," which was published in Springer Nature's Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior in June 2023 and is being used widely in the academic literature.
Summary
This groundbreaking look at the array of styles and modes of relationships proposes a new paradigm for understanding intimate relationships, challenging the monogamy/polyamory binary and offering fresh possibilities for thinking about contemporary love, sex, gender, and sexuality.
