Synopses & Reviews
Based on interviews with men and women of all ages, Ruthellen Josselson explores the role of human relations in psychological development. She identifies what people need from each other, and how practitioners can help clients recognize, bear and direct their need for others. The Space Between Us presents a vocabulary for understanding human relationships, not in the traditional negative framework of depAndence and codepAndence, but in terms of the essential ways in which these connections make us whole.
Review
"The best book on interpersonal relationships to appear in many years. Written with lucidity and grace." —Dr. Irvin D. Yalom, author of Love's Executioner
"Deep and insightful, this should prove important to professional therapists as well as to those seeking a better understanding of human nature."
Synopsis
Presents a study of adult relatedness, not in the usual psychopathological framework of depAndence and codepAndence, but in terms of the dynamic and essential ways these connections make us whole.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-283) and index.
Table of Contents
1. The Discourse of Relatedness
2. Yearning of (Wo)Man
3. Holding
4. Attachment
5. Passionate Experience
6. Eye-to-Eye Validation
7. Idealization and Identification
8. Mutuality and Resonance
9. Embeddedness
10. Tending (Care)
11. Sex Differences in Relatedness
12. Notes on Love
Resources: A. About Relational Space Maps and Interviews B. The Dimensions and Their Pathological Poles