Intimacy

Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives

By: Gurmeet Kanwal (Editor), Salman Akhtar (Editor)

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Paperback | 10 December 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Intimacy takes a comprehensive and contemporary look at the many different facets of intimacy between people from a psychoanalytic perspective. "Intimacy" refers not only to warmth and closeness between people, but also to the different ways in which people relate to each other and themselves.

The book covers the psychology of intimacy across an unusually wide range of arenas, including: romantic and sexual intimacy, intimacy between humans and god, between people and pets, between friends, within multicultural, multiracial and interfaith couples, intimacy in other cultures, as well as intimacy mediated by new digital technologies. The book also examines the relationship between intimacy and privacy, looks at how intimacy issues might be different during different phases of human development, such as infancy and adolescence, and explores the special type of intimacy that psychoanalytic treatment depends upon in great detail.

Intimacy is unique in combining perspectives from different psychoanalytic schools, including Classical Freudian, Attachment Theory, and Interpersonal Theory. The book highlights commonalities and differences between these approaches, emphasizes clinical issues throughout, and features numerous case study vignettes. The book will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and training across different schools.

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"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, Ph.D., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology

"Who amongst us does not want to know more about the topic of intimacy? And, this book provides all of us a great opportunity to do so. From Akhtar's masterful introduction through Kanwal's perspicacious chapter to Bohm's concluding commentary, the reader repeatedly encounters rich, sophisticated, and nuanced discussion of various facets of intimacy. These include intimacy in love, friendship, spirituality, man's relationship with animals, and, most importantly, intimacy in the clinical situation. This book is a delight both for the intellect and the emotions!" Aisha Abbasi, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, Author of Rupture of Serenity (2014)

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