The Dark Side of Close Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780805824865 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 440 str.

Spitzberg; Brian H. Spitzberg; William R. Cupach

Opis

This collection of essays represents a follow-up to the editors' 1994 publication, The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. In the preface to that collection of essays, they argued that To fully understand how people function effectively requires us to consider how individuals cope with social interaction that is difficult, problematic, challenging, distressing and disruptive. In this companion volume, the focus expands from interaction to close relationships. Aside from the inherent need to investigate the bad as well as the good of interpersonal relationships, the editors and their colleagues simply find the dark side metaphor to be intellectually arousing. It stimulates investigation of important yet often neglected phenomena, and it especially encourages consideration of the hidden and forbidden, and the paradoxical and ironic elements of human relating.

Recenzje

"...(there) are a number of interesting, if not consistently enlightening, essays on such relationship phenomena as misunderstanding, jealousy and envy, gossip, sexual coercion, unrequited love, and codependence."
—Contemporary Psychology

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Introduction: Dusk, Detritus, and Delusion: A Prolegomenon to the Dark Side of Close Relationships. Part I: Seducing. D. Felmlee, Fatal Attraction. L.K. Guerrero, P.A. Andersen, The Dark Side of Jealousy and Envy: Desire, Delusion, Desperation, and Destructive Communication. Part II: Confusing. A.L. Sillars, (Mis)Understanding. M.E. Jaeger, A.A. Skelder, R.L. Rosnow, Who's Up on the Low Down: Gossip in Interpersonal Relations. Part III: Bruising. S.J. Messman, D.J. Canary, Patterns of Conflict in Personal Relationships. B.A. Le Poire, J.S. Hallett, H. Giles, Codependence: The Paradoxical Nature of the Functional--Afflicted Relationship. Part IV: Abusing. B.H. Spitzberg, Sexual Coercion in Courtship Relations. W.R. Cupach, B.H. Spitzberg, Obsessional Relational Intrusion and Stalking. Part V: Losing. A.L. Weber, Losing, Leaving, and Letting Go: Coping With Nonmarital Breakups. E. Bratslavsky, R.F. Baumeister, K.L. Sommer, To Love or Be Loved in Vain: The Trials and Tribulations of Unrequited Love. C. Segrin, Disrupted Interpersonal Relationships and Mental Health Problems. Part VI: Musings. K.S. Rook, Investigating the Positive and Negative Sides of Personal Relationships: Through a Lens Darkly?

O autorze

William R. Cupach, Brian H. Spitzberg