Knowing If It's the Real Thing: Discovering the Roots of Intimacy

In this exciting and original work, Gerald Alper, illuminates the crucial elements that together constitute intimacy. Knowing If It's the Real Thing offers a radical departure from today's popular, yet mythological belief that if two people stay together, in an adaptive, productive, and moderately mutually enhancing way, they will achieve the most a relationship can offer.

Some issues discussed in the book are the basic ingredients and rudimentary ground rules of "postmodern intimacy;" how ...