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Demystifying Love

Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional

By: Stephen B. Levine

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Hardcover | 13 December 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Intended primarily for mental health professionals, Demystifying Love deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly readable and useful topics, such as love (as both noun and verb), psychological intimacy, sexual desire, as well as infidelity, both in background concepts and clinical guidelines.

As the book shows, love is the logical point of departure for a clinical understanding of sexuality and its problems. It is the most conventional framework for understanding sexual behaviors, the one that is broadly endorsed across many cultures, often as the ideal context for sexual expression. The book integrates an analysis of love in patients dealing with intimacy, sexual desire, infidelity, forgiveness and reconciliation. Detailed with compelling case studies, the author's skill as a therapist comes through in the discussion of these topics-many of which are at the heart of numerous couple problems.

In creating this illuminating work for mental health professionals, Dr. Levine may have underestimated its appeal.  Dr. Levine's ability to shed light on our internal processes as we love and attempt to be loved throughout life may prove to be of interest to a far broader audience.

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"The special gift of this book is to recognize and address the complexity of love, particularly how it relates to sexual desire over the lifespan. Of great value are Dr. Levine's guidelines for staying in love. His two chapters about infidelity are clinically rich in detail with valuable insights into the role and meaning of extramarital involvements. Demystifying Love is one of the most thought provoking books for clinicians in recent years." - Barry McCarthy, Ph.D., author of Rekindling Desire and professor of psychology at American University "An illuminating account of the multi-layered complexity of the elusive reality we call 'love.' Especially useful is Levine's account of love as a process of connection-disconnection-reconnection as couples deal with the inevitable challenges of creating and maintaining psychological intimacy in the face of disappointment and the inevitable life changes that confront every couple." - Robert Scuka, Executive Director, National Institute of Relationship Enhancement, and author of Relationship Enhancement Therapy: Healing Through Deep Empathy and Intimate Dialogue

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Non-Fiction Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy Psychology Physiological & Neuro-Psychology, Biopsychology

Preface
The Nouns of Love
The Verbs of Love
Professional Humility and the Erotic Transference
The Path to Love: Psychological Intimacy
Sexual Desire: Simplicity and Complexity
Infidelity: Vital Background Concepts
Infidelity: The Work of the Therapist
Love is Connection-Disconnection-Reconnection
Index
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Demystifying Love

Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional

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