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Author Scarf, Maggie, 1932-

Title Intimate partners : patterns in love and marriage / Maggie Scarf.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [1987]
©1987

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  306.81 SCRAF    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.81 S285I    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  306.81 SC    Check Shelf
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.
Interpersonal relations.
Love.
Interpersonal Relations.
Love.
Marriage.
ISBN 039455485X: $18.95
9780394554853
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