What makes us stay together? : attachment and the outcomes of couple relationships / by Rosetta Castellano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castellano, Rosetta, author.

Series:

Library of couple and family psychoanalysis.

The library of couple and family psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attachment behavior.

Love.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years commentators have speculated on the "collapse" of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relationships making them vulnerable to crises and break ups. Now, more than ever, and prompted by changes that have shaken our assumptions about socio/cultural context, the reasons that make couple relationships unstable are sought in the negotiations and redefinitions required by the changes themselves. New types of families are emerging and consequently new issues are being raised about the dynamics of family relationships. This book underlines the role of attachment as a central motivational system in couple relationships, and focuses on the relationship between past and present experiences in determining choices, perceptions, and feelings in couple relationships. It considers what other motivational systems interact with attachment in constituting a couple's dynamics, and looks at aspects more directly experienced by couples: in particular, how they feel about their relationship, especially in terms of the degree of intimacy between them (something that attachment theorists might look at in evaluating how "good" a relationship is)

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONEAttachment perspectives on couple relationships; CHAPTER TWO Understanding couple relationships by comparing attachment perspectives; CHAPTER THREE The interplay of motivational systems; CHAPTER FOUR Couple functioning; CHAPTER FIVE The outcomes of couple relationships; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

First published in Italian in 2010 as Cosa ci fa restare insieme? Attaccamento ed esiti della relazione di coppia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 8, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-92387-2

0-429-90964-0

0-367-10231-5

0-429-48487-9

1-78241-194-1

9780429484872

OCLC:

865653966