Couple relationships in a global context : understanding love and intimacy across cultures /: understanding love and intimacy across cultures. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Angela Abela, Sue Vella, Suzanne Piscopo, editors.
• Editors: Abela, Angela; Vella, Sue; Piscopo, Suzanne
• Contents: Part 1: The significance of the couple relationship.- Chapter 1. Understanding couple relationships in a global context: Love and intimacy across cultures.- Chapter 2. The significance of the couple relationship in the 21st century.- Part 2: How couple relationships are changing in different parts of the world.- Chapter 3. The existential and relational meaning of love and intimacy for couples in Scandinavia.- Chapter 4. The evolution of the couple in France over the past 30 years.- Chapter 5. Changing couple relationships in India.- Chapter 6. Couple relationships in the Arab region: Changes and renegotiations.- Chapter 7. Couple relationships in China.- Chapter 8. Couple relationships in Mediterranean Malta.- Part 3: Couples in Diversity.- Chapter 9. Home is where the heart is: Aporias of love and belonging in intercultural couples.- Chapter 10. Stigma, social change and the well-being of same-sex couples.- Chapter 11. Falling in love in later life.- Chapter 12. Polygynous marriages: An Arab-Islamic perspective.- Chapter 13. The couple relationship when one of the partners has an acquired physical disability.- Part 4: Global trends in couple relationships.- Chapter 14. Framing couples in the media: Coupledom, wellbeing and comedy.- Chapter 15. Keeping couples together when apart, and driving them apart when together: Exploring the impact of smartphones on relationships in the UK.- Chapter 16. Online dating: Modern options of searching for a partner and its implications for psychotherapy.- Chapter 17. Fidelity, infidelity and non-monogamy.- Chapter 18. Understanding long-term couple relationships.- Chapter 19. Why and how couples leave relationships: A 21st century landscape.- Chapter 20. Between the couple and living alone.- Part 5: Supporting couple relationships.- Chapter 21. Systemic therapy and narratives of attachment.- Chapter 22. Supporting parents as partners: The couple context of parenting, a personal and academic.- Chapter 23. Supporting links between Living Apart Together couples through Online Couple Therapy.- Chapter 24. No couple is an island. Communities of support in couple relationships.- Chapter 25. Policy perspectives on couple relationships.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (443 pages)
• Subjects: 306.7; Couples; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3030377121; 9783030377120
• Notes: Note: Description based on print version record.
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