The meaning of love in human experience

Author(s)

• Fine, Reuben

Bibliographic Information

The meaning of love in human experience

Reuben Fine

Wiley, c1985

Note

Bibliography: p. 373-404

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book presents an integrative theory of love as the most important of human experiences, drawing on data from psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology and history. It distinguishes and analyzes the differences between "love" cultures and "hate" cultures, showing how these differences affect social history, child-rearing practices and personal mental health. The book also examines the meaning of love from genetic, cultural, intrapersonal, and interpersonal perspectives.

Table of Contents

• Love Cultures and Hate Cultures
• Western Civilization as a Hate Culture: From the Greeks to the Middle Ages
• Western Civilization as a Hate Culture: From the Middle Ages to the Present
• Religious Images of Love
• Can Animals Love?
• The Child in the Family: Loving Comes from Being Loved
• Clinical Observations
• The Social Control of Love
• Theories of Love
• Love and the Analytic Ideal
• Implications for Psychotherapy
• Bibliography
• Author and Subject Indexes.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA00154176
• ISBN:
  • 0471871141
• LCCN: 84027070
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 422 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF575.L8
  • DC19 : 302
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Love
  • LCSH : Mental health
  • LCSH : Psychoanalysis
  • LCSH : Psychotherapy