Yolanda van Ede. Romantic Love and Anthropology Charles Lindholm , Boston University * ABSTRACT Westerners generally understand romantic love as a compelling emotional attraction to an idealized other . The Western notion of romantic love ...
For those in love, for those out of love, and for those looking for love, this refreshing study offers an insight on the phenomenon of romantic love. It explores the crucial ingredients of time and sex in contemporary relationships.
Offering personal and practical advice for turning romance into the real thing, a family psychiatrist and founder of Focus on the Family tackles misconceptions of love and romance, and demonstrates how to build lasting relationships.
This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love.
Originally published in 1980, this updated edition of The Psychology of Romantic Love explores the nature of romantic love on many levels-the philosophical, the historical, the sociological, and the physiological.
Provides an illuminating explanation of the origins and meaning of romantic love and shows how a proper understanding of its psychological dynamics can revitalize our most important relationships.
This short book, informed by both historical and cutting edge philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, combines a new theory of romantic love with entertaining anecdotes from real life and accessible explanations of the neuroscience ...