The author, an anthropologist, reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body - claims that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites w…
"In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate…
Attachment theory is on the leading edge of a conceptual revolution. It offers a new paradigm that can synthesize into a more coherent whole the best ideas from psychoanalysis, cognitive science, and neurobiology. With its emphasis on relationships, attachment theory is determin…
Couples in distress enter therapy holding two goals that they now experience as mutually exclusive: to feel loved and to feel understood. Toni Herbine-Blank's powerful new brand of couple therapy, Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), offers a comprehensive conceptual map for ach…
To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations. In Art and Intimacy she argues for the joint evolutionary origi…
Offers practical suggestions for how to enhance a marriage, explains behaviors that can break up a marriage, and argues that talking about a relationship will not bring partners closer together.
Psychotherapist and spiritual teacher Robert Augustus Masters offers this new and insightful guide to masculine power and fulfillment. "I've got it all-so why am I so dissatisfied with my life? Why am I never happy in my romantic relationships? How do I become more courageous an…
Psychotherapist and spiritual teacher Robert Augustus Masters offers this new and insightful guide to masculine power and fulfillment. "I've got it all-so why am I so dissatisfied with my life? Why am I never happy in my romantic relationships? How do I become more courageous an…
