False Intimacy

False Intimacy
Author: Harry Schaumburg
Publisher: NavPress
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1641582367

With frank honesty, False Intimacy offers realistic direction to those whose lives or ministries have been impacted by sexual addiction while examining the roots behind these behaviors. This compelling book examines different aspects of sexual addiction, including shame, purity, and forgiveness, while exploring one’s true identity and God-given sexuality.

Wired for Intimacy

Wired for Intimacy
Author: William M. Struthers
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1458765555

Pornography is powerful. Our contemporary culture as been pornified, and it shapes our assumptions about identity, sexuality, the value of women and the nature of relationships. Countless Christian men struggle with the addictive power of porn. But common spiritual approaches of more prayer and accountability groups are often of limited help. In this book neuroscientist and researcher William Struthers explains how pornography affects the male brain and what we can do about it. Because we are embodied beings, viewing pornography changes how the brain works, how we form memories and make attachments. By better understanding the biological realities of our sexual development, we can cultivate healthier sexual perspectives and interpersonal relationships. Struthers exposes false assumptions and casts a vision for a redeemed masculinity, showing how our sexual longings can actually propel us toward sanctification and holiness in our bodies. With insights for both married and single men alike, this book offers hope for freedom from pornography.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Intimacy

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Intimacy
Author: Paul Coleman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2005
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781592573875

For decades, doctors have identified an inability to foster intimacy - both physical and emotional - as a key factor in everything from unsuccessful marriages to difficult personal relationships. But for those struggling with this hidden problem, therapy and dense texts have been the only answers. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Intimacyprovides a beacon for those looking for clear, understandable answers. Dr. Paul Coleman, a practicing psychologist, specializes in helping both couples and individuals work through the issues that keep them from having lasting relationships, intimate friendships, and happy families. Dr. Coleman gives readers step-by-step answers and a clear path to making changes by helping them to identify intimacy problems, understand key differences between men and women, change perceptions, overcome arguments, and effectively communicate. He also covers sexual intimacy and affection issues including intimacy during stressful times, transitions, and as relationships progress.

Intimacy and Solitude

Intimacy and Solitude
Author: Stephanie Dowrick
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1996-02-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780393313611

A co-founder of the Women's Press in England and a trained psychotherapist explores the paradox of needing to enjoy solitude before one can be truly intimate with another. In this critically acclaimed work, Dowrick moves readers through the realms of solitude, intimacy, and desire, offering spiritual as well aspsychological guidance.

Seduced by Sex, Saved by Love

Seduced by Sex, Saved by Love
Author: Jan Kern
Publisher: Standard Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780784721582

Teens can learn to break free from the past and make choices needed to take hold of the authentic love God offers.

Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy

Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy
Author: Ferdinand David Schoeman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1984-11-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521275545

This collection of essays makes readily accessible many of the most significant and influential discussions of privacy.

IRRELATIONSHIP: How we use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy

IRRELATIONSHIP: How we use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy
Author: Mark B. Borg
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, LLC
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-09-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1942094019

No matter how committed two people are to being together, why can't they get away from feeling something is missing? In this important and transformative guide, three experienced practitioners identify the widespread dysfunctional dynamic they call "irrelationship," a psychological defense system two people create together to protect themselves from the fear and anxiety of real intimacy in a relationship. Drawing on their wide clinical and life experience, the authors examine behavioral "song-and-dance routines" repeatedly performed by couples affected by irrelationship. Readers will find a valuable framework for understanding their challenges with action-oriented tools to help them navigate their way to fulfilling relationships. Mark B. Borg, Jr., PhD, is a community psychologist and psychoanalyst, and a supervisor of psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute. Grant H. Brenner, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice, specializing in treating mood and anxiety disorders and the complex problems that may arise in adulthood from childhood trauma and loss. Daniel Berry, RN, MHA, has practiced as a Registered Nurse in New York City since 1987 and has worked for almost two decades in community-based programs.

Conditions of Love

Conditions of Love
Author: John Armstrong
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2002
Genre: Love
ISBN: 9780140294712

What does it really mean to love another person? Is there such a thing as the 'perfect' partner? How does infatuation differ from the real thing?The need to love is central to our idea of happiness, yet it sometimes seems that the more we reflect on it the more elusive it becomes. In this lucid and graceful meditation on the deeper meanings of intimacy, John Armstrong explores the ideas that have shaped how we view affairs of the heart. Drawing on poetry, novels, philosophy, paintings and music, he shows how love is inextricably bound up with perception and the imagination: that loving a real, complicated person and being understood and valued by them in turn is not something we find, but rather something we create.

Artificial Intimacy

Artificial Intimacy
Author: Rob Brooks
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2021-11-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0231553854

What happens when the human brain, which evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting the ways people make friends, gossip with neighbors, and grow intimate with lovers. Sex robots present the humanoid face of this technological revolution—yet although it is easy to gawk at their uncanniness, more familiar technologies based in artificial intelligence and virtual reality are insinuating themselves into human interactions. Digital lovers, virtual friends, and algorithmic matchmakers help us manage our feelings in a world of cognitive overload. Will these machines, fueled by masses of user data and powered by algorithms that learn all the time, transform the quality of human life? Artificial Intimacy offers an innovative perspective on the possibilities of the present and near future. The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider the interaction of new technologies and fundamental human behaviors. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do. Brooks combines an understanding of core human traits from evolutionary biology with analysis of how cultural, economic, and technological contexts shape the ways people express them. Beyond the technology, he asks what the implications of artificial intimacy will be for how we understand ourselves.

Daring to Trust

Daring to Trust
Author: David Richo
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-07-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1590309243

The best-selling author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships explains how to build trust—the essential ingredient in successful relationships—in spite of fear or past betrayals Most relationship problems are essentially trust issues, explains psychotherapist David Richo. Whether it’s fear of commitment, insecurity, jealousy, or a tendency to be controlling, the real obstacle is a fundamental lack of trust—both in ourselves and in our partner. Daring to Trust explores the importance of trust throughout our emotional lives: how it develops in childhood and how it becomes an essential ingredient in healthy adult relationships. It offers key insights and practical exercises for exploring and addressing our trust issues in relationships. Topics include: • How we learn early in life to trust others (or not to trust them) • Why we fear trusting • Developing greater trust in ourselves as the basis for trusting others • How to know if someone is trustworthy • Naïve trust vs. healthy, adult trust • What to do when trust is broken Ultimately, Richo explains, we must develop trust in four directions: toward ourselves, toward others, toward life as it is, and toward a higher power or spiritual path. These four types of trust are not only the basis of healthy relationships, they are also the foundation of emotional well-being and freedom from fear.