Loneliness, love and all that's between : a psychological look at what makes us lonely and what keeps us in love / Ami Rokach; with contributions by Ami Sha'ked.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rokach, Ami.

Contributor:

Rokach, Ami.

Series:

Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.

Psychology of emotions, motivations and actions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love--Psychological aspects.

Love.

Loneliness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Loneliness, as old as time itself, is not easy to define. It's a bit like love - you know when you feel it, but cannot specifically define it. However, no one who ever walked on the face of this earth has gone through life without experiencing the pain of being lonely, alienated, and feeling unconnected to others, unloved, or even rejected. Although we, in the 21st century, pride ourselves as inventors [the Internet, computers, reaching the moon, and biomedical advances] we did not invent this one - loneliness was here way before any of us, and consequently we can find it mentioned in the Bibl

Contents:

""LONELINESS, LOVE AND ALL THAT�S BETWEEN: A PSYCHOLOGICAL LOOK AT WHAT MAKES US LONELY AND WHAT KEEPS US IN LOVE""; ""LONELINESS, LOVE AND ALL THAT�S BETWEEN: A PSYCHOLOGICAL LOOK AT WHAT MAKES US LONELY AND WHAT KEEPS US IN LOVE""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""PART 1: ON LONELINESS AND LOVE""; ""Chapter 1: WHAT IS LONELIENESS?""; ""ALONENESS AND SOLITUDE""; ""DOES SOLITUDE HAVE ANY BENEFITS?""; ""MY RESEARCH""; ""THE EFFECTS OF LONELINESS""; ""THE PROFILE OF A LONELY PERSON""; ""LONELINESS ANXIETY""

""Chapter 2: LONELINESS AND THE LIFECYCLE""""CHILDHOOD""; ""ADOLESCENCE""; ""YOUNG ADULTS (AGE 19-30)""; ""ADULTHOOD""; ""THE AGED""; ""Chapter 3: WHY ARE WE LONELY?""; ""Chapter 4: COPING WITH LONELINESS""; ""WORKING WITH THE LONELY CLIENT""; ""Chapter 5: ON LOVE AND LONELINESS""; ""THE NATURE OF INTIMACY""; ""WHAT ARE RELATIONSHIPS INFLUENCED BY?""; ""LOVE AND ATTACHMENT""; ""ON LOVE""; ""IS LOVE UNIVERSAL? LOVE IS UNIVERSAL""; ""SOME INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS ABOUT LOVE""; ""MORE KINDS OF LOVE""; ""ROMANTIC LOVE""; ""TROUBLE IN LOVE�S PARADISE""; ""THE WEAR AND TEAR OF LOVE""

""PEOPLE WHO CANNOT LOVE""""PART 2: MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY: WHAT CAN GO WRONG AND HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER""; ""Chapter 6: MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY""; ""ATTACHMENT STYLES""; ""PRESENT DAY MARRIAGES""; ""THE FAMILY""; ""Chapter 7: SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES""; ""MARITAL SUPPORT""; ""LOVE MAPS""; ""COMMITMENT""; ""PERSONAL COMMITMENT""; ""MORAL COMMITMENT""; ""STRUCTURAL COMMITMENT""; ""COMMITMENT AND ATTACHMENT""; ""INDIVIDUAL TRAITS AFFECTING MARITAL OUTCOME""; ""RELATIONAL ELEMENTS THAT AFFECT THE MARRIAGE""; ""MEASURING COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVENESS""; ""CONFLICTS IN MARITAL RELATIONS""

""Chapter 8: INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT""""SELF-DISCLOSURE""; ""POSITIVE INVOLVEMENT""; ""SHARED UNDERSTANDING""; ""EXPRESSION OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS""; ""THE GOAL: INTIMATE RELATIONS""; ""THE COMMUNAL RELATIONSHIP MODEL""; ""PRE-EMPTIVE RELATIONSHIP MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT""; ""THE SELF EXPRESSION THEORY""; ""THE MICHELANGELO PHENOMENON (MP)""; ""ACCOMMODATION IN INTIMATE RELATIONS""; ""PARTNERS� WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE""; ""ATTRIBUTION IN MARITAL RELATIONSHIP""; ""TRUST IN MARRIAGE""; ""IS SACRIFICE A GOOD THING?""; ""Chapter 9: LONELINESS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONS""

""WHAT ARE FULFILLING ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS?""""CASE ILLUSTRATION: LOVE TURNED INTO A LONELY JOURNEY""; ""Chapter 10: ENRICHING GOOD MARRIAGES AND FIXING BAD ONES""; ""WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP FALTERING MARRIAGES?""; ""PREVENTION AND RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (PREP)""; ""THE EMPATHETIC ACCURACY MODEL""; ""RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT (RE)""; ""PREPARE/ENRICH COUPLE PROGRAM""; ""TRAINING IN MARRIAGE ENRICHMENT (TIME)""; ""ASSOCIATION FOR COUPLES IN MARRIAGE ENRICHMENT (ACME)""; ""THE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM""; ""SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS""; ""SELECTED REFERENCES""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHOR""

""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 16, 2013).

ISBN:

1-62948-173-4

OCLC:

864139451