Demystifying Love - Stephen B. Levine

Demystifying Love

Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional
Buch | Hardcover
198 Seiten
2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-95599-7 (ISBN)
155,85 inkl. MwSt
Intended primarily for mental health professionals, Demystifying Love deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly readable and useful topics, such as love (as both noun and verb), psychological intimacy, sexual desire, and infidelity, both in background concepts and clinical guidelines.
Intended primarily for mental health professionals, Demystifying Love deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly readable and useful topics, such as love (as both noun and verb), psychological intimacy, sexual desire, as well as infidelity, both in background concepts and clinical guidelines.

As the book shows, love is the logical point of departure for a clinical understanding of sexuality and its problems. It is the most conventional framework for understanding sexual behaviors, the one that is broadly endorsed across many cultures, often as the ideal context for sexual expression. The book integrates an analysis of love in patients dealing with intimacy, sexual desire, infidelity, forgiveness and reconciliation. Detailed with compelling case studies, the author’s skill as a therapist comes through in the discussion of these topics—many of which are at the heart of numerous couple problems.

In creating this illuminating work for mental health professionals, Dr. Levine may have underestimated its appeal. Dr. Levine’s ability to shed light on our internal processes as we love and attempt to be loved throughout life may prove to be of interest to a far broader audience.

Stephen B. Levine, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has written four solo-authored books on sexuality and co-edited the Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals.

Preface. The Nouns of Love. The Verbs of Love. Professional Humility and the Erotic Transference. The Path to Love: Psychological Intimacy. Sexual Desire: Simplicity and Complexity. Infidelity: Vital Background Concepts. Infidelity: The Work of the Therapist. Love is Connection-Disconnection-Reconnection. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.3.2007
Zusatzinfo 1 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 362 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-415-95599-8 / 0415955998
ISBN-13 978-0-415-95599-7 / 9780415955997
Zustand Neuware
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