Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xvi, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 401-409. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Part I. Becoming a couple: the power of the past -- 1. The attraction -- 2. Where the past and the present converge: genograms -- 3. Autonomy and intimacy -- 4. Love itself -- 5. Happily ever after -- Part II. Lovers and other third parties: emotional triangles -- 6. Marriages as systems -- 7. An Intimate system: the caretaker and the wounded bird -- 8. Marital infidelity -- 9. Emotional triangles -- Part III. The couple in midstream: marital problems, marital solutions -- 10. What marital problems are made of: couples in collusion -- 11. Tasks -- 12. A classic system: the silent husband and the hysterical wife -- Part IV. Sexuality -- 13. Sexual symptoms: psychology, biology, or both? -- 14. What, precisely, happens during sex? -- 15. Sexual cures -- Part V. The child-launching years: time of transformation -- 16. The second separation -- 17. A game for two players -- Part VI. The postparenting phase: reintegration -- 18. Marital fighting -- 19. The five ways in which couples relate -- 20. "We have a good time". |
Subject |
Marriage -- United States.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Love.
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Interpersonal Relations.
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Love.
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Marriage.
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ISBN |
039455485X: $18.95 |
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9780394554853 |
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