Knowing If It's the Real Thing

Discovering the Roots of Intimacy

Gerald Alper author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University Press of America

Published:1st Nov '04

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Knowing If It's the Real Thing cover

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