The Dance of Intimacy
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780060916466
Subjects: Marriage, family & other relationships; Popular psychology; Women's studies; Sociology; Love & Romance; Psychology; Love / Sex / Marriage; Women; General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Intimacy (Psychology); Marriage
First sentence: "I was cleaning my attic when I came across a poem I wrote during my sophomore year of college in Madison, Wiscon."
Table of contents: title: The pursuit of intimacy : is it women's work? -- The challenge of change – Selfhood : at what cost? -- Anxiety revisited : naming the problem -- Distance and more distance -- Dealing with differences -- Defining a bottom line -- Understanding overfunctioning -- Very hot issues : a process view of change -- Tackling triangles -- Bold new moves : the story of Linda -- Our mother/her mother/our self -- Reviewing self-focus : the foundations of intimacy -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Creating a genogram.