Intimate Relationships provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the science behind relationships using a modern approach. Award-winning teacher and author Wind Goodfriend integrates coverage of family and friendship relationships in context with research methods, open science, theories, and romantic relationships so that readers can learn about all types of relationships and their interactions, including conflict and the dark side of relationships. The text supports today's students by frequently applying relationship theories to examples that can be found in popular culture, helping students see how psychology can apply to the world that surrounds them.
The sixth edition of Intimate Relationships is the most accessible, comprehensive, and current work available.
This groundbreaking book reveals a process that begins in secret but gradually becomes public, implicating not only partners but their social milieu.
Intimate Relationships
The neurobiologically-grounded and sensitive approach set forth by Solomon and Tatkin in this book is sure to transform the way clinicians understand and treat couples in therapy.
Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2010. Kimmel, Michael, and Rebecca Plante. “The Gender of Desire: The Sexual Fantasies of College Women and Men.” In Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society, edited by Michael Kimmel and Rebecca ...
This book provides timely, practical, and high-interest information about marriages, families, and intimate relationships, in an engaging format that is easy to use and learn from.
This text combines the most current research with an emphasis on family background and diversity. Each chapter concludes with a section on public policy and critical-thinking questions.
Provides a unique interdisciplinary approach to the science of intimate human relationships This newly updated edition of a popular text is the first to present a full-blooded interdisciplinary and theoretically...
As the first text to fully capture the excitement of today's research findings on couples, Intimate Relationships answers fascinating questions: How do relationships work? Why are they so hard sometimes?
In Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships, Firestone and his co-authors help therapists help their clients.