The dance of intimacy : a woman's guide to courageous acts of change in key relationships / Harriet Lerner.
By: Lerner, Harriet Goldhor
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BookPublisher: London : Thorsons, 1999Description: xii, 255 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0722538057 .Subject(s): Women -- Psychology | Intimacy (Psychology)DDC classification: 155.633 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
All intimate relationships can be terribly damanged by too mcuh distance, too mcuh intensity or simply too much pain.
In clear, direct and dramatic terms, psychotherapist Harriet G. Lerner illustrates how we can move differently in these key relationships - be they with a distant or unfaithful spouse, a depressed sister, a difficult mother, an uncommitted lover or a family member that we have written off.
Using poignant examples from case studies and stories from the author's own life The Dance of Intimacy illuminates the steps that women can take towards more solid and intimate relationships with others.
Whatever your own definition of intimacy, this book will challenge and broaden it, as the author provides a sound framework for understanding how we get in - and out - of trouble with the most important people in our lives.
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The pursuit of intimacy: is it woman's work? -- The challenge of change -- Selfhood: at what cost? -- Anxiety revisited: naming the problem -- Distance and more distance -- Dealing with differences -- Defining the bottom line -- Understanding overfunctioning -- Very hot issues: a process view of change -- Tackling triangles -- Bold new moves: the story of Linda -- Our mother/her mother/our self -- Reviewing self-focus: the foundations of intimacy.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Well-known psychotherapist Dr. Harriet Learner has helped millions of women with relationship problems.Women around the world have benefited from Lerner's guidance in the bestselling series Dance of Anger, Dance of Intimacy, Dance of Deception. In her monthly column, Good Advice, which appears in New Woman magazine, the author gives practical answers to the big and little questions of life. In Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life (1996) the reader who has read too many self-help books and is still not perfect is given a clear plan of action to cut through confusion.
Other titles by Lerner include Women in Therapy: Devaluation, Anger, Aggression, Depression, Self-Sacrifice, Mothering, Mother Blaming, Self Betrayal, Sex-Role Stereotypes, Dependency, Work and Success, Inhibitions, and The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life. The author has also written a children's book, What's So Terrible About Swallowing an Appleseed , that examines the sister relationship and honesty. In addition, Lerner has created a series of self-help audio cassettes.
Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans. and frequent workshop leader, lecturer, and consultant. She is married and the mother of two sons.
(Bowker Author Biography)