Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide / Edition 1

by Jon Carlson, Len Sperry

Overview

The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult—but also one of the most common—factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical, evidence-based guidelines on which clinicians can depend as they wade through the intense emotions and fragile bonds of couples in crisis. With care and sensitivity, the book's authors analyze the increasingly complex context in which the cycle of intimacy develops, wanes, and recovers. The chapters delve into diverse populations' attitudes toward intimacy and provide an entire section on cultural, gender and religious issues.

Clinicians looking for a research-based, practical take on the many facets of intimacy in the twenty-first century need look no further than this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415992534
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/07/2010
Series:	Routledge Series on Family Therapy and Counseling
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University, University Park, Illinois and a Psychologist with the Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Jon is the author of 50 books, 150 articles and developed and produced over 250 commercial videotapes that feature the most prominent leaders in the field.

Len Sperry, MD, PhD is a Professor of Mental Health Counseling at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He has some 600 publications including 60 professional books. He is on the editoral board of the American Journal of Family Therapy, The Family Journal, and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.

Together, Len and Jon have collaborated on several other books, including The Intimate Couple and The Disordered Couple

Table of Contents

Series Editors Foreword Jon Carlson ix

Preface xi

Contributors xv

Part I Intimacy Overview

1 Intimacy: Definition, Contexts, and Models for Understanding Its Development and Diminishment Len Sperry 3

2 Recovering From Sexual and Other Types of Infidelity, Part I: A Typology of Infidelities Steven D, Solomon Lorie J. Teagno 15

3 Recovering From Sexual and Other Types of Infidelity, Part II: Treatment Guidelines and Strategies Steven D. Solomon Lorie J. Teagno 39

4 Interview With Frank Pittman 65

5 Recovering Intimacy: Using Assessments to Pinpoint Treatment Dennis A. Bagarozzi 67

6 Interview With Frederic Luskin 95

7 Recovering Intimacy After Infidelity: A Practice-Based Evidence Approach W. Jared Dupree Mark B. White 99

Part II Clinical Considerations in Recovery From Emotional Infidelity

8 An Object Relations Approach to Intimacy: Loss and Recovery Jill Savege Scharff 127

9 Interview With Paul Peluso 149

10 Barriers to Recovering Intimacy Stephen T Fife Gerald R Weeks 157

11 Internet Infidelity: Guidelines for Recovering Intimacy Katherine M. Helm 181

12 Financial Infidelity and Intimacy Recovery Byron Waller 207

13 Interview With Brent Atkinson 233

14 Recovering Intimacy With Regard to Health, Work, and Friendship Issues Maureen Duffy 249

15 Context and Culture in Intimate Partner Infidelity: Co-Constructing Preferred Couple Narratives J. Maria Bermúdez Michele L. Parker 271

16 Interview With Harville Hendrix 291

17 Restoring Intimacy With African American Couples Shea Dunham Cyrus Marcellus Ellis 295

18 Recovering Intimacy With Latino Couples: Cultural, Religious, and Gender Considerations Robert L. Smith R. Esteban Montilla 317

19 Marital Satisfaction, Intimacy, Enqing and Relationship Stressors Among Asians Kok-Mun Ng Paul K. Peluso Shannon D. Smith 331

20 Interview With David Burns 353

21 Intimacy and the Recovery of Intimacy in Religious and Faith-Based Relationships Jill D. Duba 357

Appendix: Clinician's Resource Guide: Popular Self-Help Books on Intimacy Jonathan Sperry Len Sperry 373

Index 385

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent resource for clinicians and clinicians in training. I would not hesitate to recommend this text to students who have expressed an interest in working with partners seeking to repair a damaged relationship. A book worth having on your shelf." - Chammie Austin, PhD., Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA, in PsycCRITIQUES

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