Knowing If It's the Real Thing
Discovering the Roots of Intimacy
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University Press of America
Published:1st Nov '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 to discover the arena in which one feels most comfortable in expressing intimate feelings; the many ways that sincere efforts to connect can completely misfire; and how to build up defenses, dodge self-reproach, and retain one's dignity and sense of trust following a serious break-up.
Gerald Alper never writes a dull book. A novelist and short story writer turned psychotherapist, he has one of the more creative analytic minds of his generation. -- Jerome David Levin, Ph.D., Faculty Supervisor, Post Graduate Center for Health
Alper's books represent a crowning contribution to the psychology of creativity in psychotherapy. -- Erwin Randolph Parson, Ph.D., former Editor, Journal of Contemporary Psychology
ISBN: 9780761829768
Dimensions: 227mm x 152mm x 17mm
Weight: 304g
208 pages