Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives

by SalmanAkhtar (Editor), Gurmeet Kanwal (Editor)

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2019
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Intimacy applies a contemporary, psychoanalytic perspective to the many facets of intimacy between people, from romantic and sexual relationships, to friendliness, as well as the ways intimacy is mediated by new digital technologies.

Identifying commonalities and differences between a range of approaches, including Classical Freudian, Attachment Theory, and Interpersonal Theory, the book includes case studies that highlight how intimacy is framed in a variety of relationships. It examines the line between privacy and intimacy, as well as how intimacy changes at different stages of one's lifespan.

From the friends we have to the pets we own, or the faith we follow, a cross-cultural perspective ensures that intimacy is conceived of as a broad, essential element underlying all human relationships. The intimacy between analyst and analysand is also examined.

This far-reaching book will interest both practising and training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as those in related disciplines.

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Intimacy applies a contemporary, psychoanalytic perspective to the many facets of intimacy between people, from romantic and sexual relationships, to friendliness, as well as the ways intimacy is mediated by new digital technologies.

Identifying commonalities and differences between a range of approaches, including Classical Freudian, Attachment Theory, and Interpersonal Theory, the book includes case studies that highlight how intimacy is framed in a variety of relationships. It examines the line between privacy and intimacy, as well as how intimacy changes at different stages of one's lifespan.

From the friends we have to the pets we own, or the faith we follow, a cross-cultural perspective ensures that intimacy is conceived of as a broad, essential element underlying all human relationships. The intimacy between analyst and analysand is also examined.

This far-reaching book will interest both practising and training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as those in related disciplines.

$133.89

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 30 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 0367085925
ISBN 13: 9780367085926

Media Reviews

I don't believe that there exists another body of work that covers the broad subject of intimacy as thoroughly as this one. Intimacy, as well as privacy, is discussed, in particular, from a developmental framework and most uniquely, from a multicultural and multi gendered framework. Included in this unique and most contemporary volume are pointed discussions of intimacy in the age of technology, intimacy in the therapeutic relationship, intimacy with lovers, intimacy with friends, intimacy with animals and intimacy with a supreme being. Any clinician is bound to benefit enormously from exposure to this edited book. --Irwin Hirsch, PhD, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology.

Author Bio

Gurmeet Kanwal, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Teaching Faculty, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology. He is co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Applications (Karnac Books, London, 2017). He practices in New York City. Salman Akhtar, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He is the author/editor of 93 books, including the most recent 'Mind , Culture , and Global Unrest' (2018).