Personality in Intimate Relationships Socialization and Psychopathology /

• Main Author: L’Abate, Luciano (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.

Personality in Intimate Relationships Socialization and Psychopathology Luciano L’Abate, Georgia State University, Atlanta Four decades of contributions to personality theory and family practice have earned Luciano L’Abate a worldwide reputation for therapeutic insights. Now he expands on his pathbr...

Table of Contents:

• Background for a Theory of Personality Socialization in Intimate Relationships and Psychopathology
• Background for a Theory of Personality Socialization in Intimate Relationships and Psychopathology
• Requirements for the Theory
• Reducibility to Known Psychological Constructs
• Verifiability and Accountability
• Metatheoretical Assumptions
• The Horizontality of Relationships
• The Verticality of Relationships
• Settings as Contexts for Intimate Relationships
• Assumptions of the Theory
• Space and the Ability to Love
• Time and the Ability to Negotiate
• Modalities of Exchange
• Models of the Theory
• Developmental Identity-Differentiation
• Styles in Intimate Relationships
• Selfhood: The Attribution of Importance
• Priorities: What Is Really Important?
• Applications of the Theory
• Distance Regulation
• The Drama Triangle
• Intimacy: Sharing Hurts and Fears of Being Hurt
• Negotiating How to Solve Problems
• A Concluding Model16 and a Comparative Model17
• Conclusion
• Testing the Theory in the Laboratory and Prevention Settings
• The Future of the Theory.