Attraction and Attachment - Understanding Styles of Relationships

Here is a fascinating exploration of the powerful forces of attachment and attraction that determine the formation and styles of couples' relationships. What factors attract one person to another? What determines whether or not a healthy relationship is formed? As therapists know, there is much in this world that passes for love but is really the result of leftover dependency needs and unresolved attachment issues. Attraction and Attachment: Understanding Styles of Relationships examines issues of attachment in relationships, discusses the validity of the concept of codependency as one aspect of attachment, and explores various aspects of attraction.

List of contents

Contents
Balance and Attachment and--Sometimes--Love

• Marriage and Attachment: An Exploration of Ten Long-Term Marriages
• Objects of Heart's Desire
• Response to: Objects of Heart's Desire
• Sexual Intimacy--Towards Equal Relationships Between Men and Women (With Treatment Assistance of a Computer Program)
• The Mating Game: What We Know and What We Don't Know
• An Overview of the Historical and Empirical Antecedents in the Development of the Codependency Concept
• Codependency and Depression: A Correlational Study
• The Acceptability of Alternative Treatment Formats of Relationship Therapy: Ratings by Premarital Subjects
• Change, Vulnerability, Fear, and Taking Risks: An Interview With Virginia Satir
• Reference Notes Included

About the author

Barbara Jo Brothers

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Jo Brothers, Brothers Barbara Jo
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.1994
• EAN: 9781560246206
• ISBN: 978-1-56024-620-6
• No. of pages: 154
• Weight: 408 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Sociology: family & relationships, Family & relationships, Social, group or collective psychology, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Sociology: family and relationships