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INTIMATE PARTNERS
Scarf, Maggie
1987 19720 From Publishers Weekly In this probing, widely researched and literate study on the nature of intimacy, Scarf (Unfinished Business, etc.) explores the reasons for the selection of mates and for the success or failure of contemporary marriages. She stresses the importance of family and other past influences, which she traces by means of a genogram, a kind of "emotional family tree." She identifies phases of marriage from idealization and disenchantment through those dominated by career-building and child-rearing to the rediscovery of each other in mature years. These phases require adaptive change on the part of both partners, however most pairs, Scarf maintains, are not aware of the nature of the power struggle for emotional dominance in the fields of sex, career, finances, child-rearing, etc., and the intimacy/autonomy conflict over which many relationships founder. The author's clear-headed, constructive advice about marital problems, including guidance on sexual adjustments, should be of help to couples at all stages. Random House 0-394-55485-X / 9780394554853
Hardcover As New New York
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INTIMATE WORLDS:: LIFE INSIDE THE FAMILY
Scarf, Maggie
1995 42676 From Publishers Weekly How families shape each member's expectations, patterns of emotional reactivity, self-acceptance or self-hatred is the theme of Scarf's enlightening report. Combining interpretive analysis and case studies, and distilling a large body of research and clinical experience, the book should be as popular as her bestselling studies of marriage (Intimate Partners) and women and depression (Unfinished Business). Scarf found that many families are gripped by unconscious fantasies, unquestioned assumptions that result in the playing out of old agendas derived from parents' own pasts. She explores the maladaptive strategies that many families employ, such as scapegoating (sacrificing one family member to keep the family's operating system intact) and emotional triangling, an evasive maneuver to deflate escalating tensions in a two-way relationship. Scarf identifies five types of families, ranging from severely disturbed to polarized to optimal, and she organizes her material around this framework, a scale that was devised by psychiatrist W. Robert Beavers in the mid-1970s. Special attention is paid to the effects on a family of alcoholism, eating disorders, incest and sexual infidelity. Included are "tasks," or therapeutic exercises, designed to strengthen familial bonds. This is a resource for families trying to improve communication, to deal with anger, frustration, ambivalence. Author tour. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal After examining women's choices in Unfinished Business (LJ 10/1/80) and marriage in Intimate Partners (LJ 2/15/87), Scarf investigates communication within the nuclear family, focusing on how families develop intimacy, manage power, and resolve conflict. She uses in-depth studies of four families exemplifying categories of the Beavers Family Systems Model: dysfunctional, tyrannical, rule bound, and average/optimal. Scarf demonstrates, for instance, how dysfunctional patterns of behavior develop and are acted out through such mechanisms as bulimia and alcoholism, how these patterns may be repeated in future generations, and how they can be changed. Especially informative are sections reporting research on the mother-bonding in child development and techniques of family therapy designed to clarify boundaries in relationships. Recommended for psychology collections in public libraries. - Random House 0-394-56543-6 / 9780394565439
Hardcover Very good Condition New York
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