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Psychosocial exploration of love and intimacy

Psychosocial exploration of love and intimacy
Psychosocial exploration of love and intimacy
Clearly organised around a single question: is love possible?, Joanne Brown's book provides conceptualisations of love and of its possibility from sociological, philosophical and psychoanalytic viewpoints. Material from biographical, narrative interviews are presented in order to look at how people from two age groups conceptualise love and view its realisation or possibility in their own lives. The book argues for the importance of a psychosocial understanding of love and provides a critical discussion of the philosophy and methods of Psychosocial Studies.
sociological, cultural, psychological, psychoanalytic, philosophical, romatic love, mental health, socio-cultural theory, psychoanalytic theory, psychosocial studies
1403995028
Palgrave Macmillan
Brown, Joanne
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Brown, Joanne
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Brown, Joanne (2006) Psychosocial exploration of love and intimacy , Basingstoke, UK. Palgrave Macmillan, 272pp.

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Clearly organised around a single question: is love possible?, Joanne Brown's book provides conceptualisations of love and of its possibility from sociological, philosophical and psychoanalytic viewpoints. Material from biographical, narrative interviews are presented in order to look at how people from two age groups conceptualise love and view its realisation or possibility in their own lives. The book argues for the importance of a psychosocial understanding of love and provides a critical discussion of the philosophy and methods of Psychosocial Studies.

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Published date: 2006
Keywords: sociological, cultural, psychological, psychoanalytic, philosophical, romatic love, mental health, socio-cultural theory, psychoanalytic theory, psychosocial studies

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Local EPrints ID: 42894
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/42894
ISBN: 1403995028
PURE UUID: 6a627ca5-0e9a-4511-b987-ed9ea4bc209e
ORCID for Joanne Brown: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3383-8809

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Date deposited: 15 Dec 2006
Last modified: 05 Aug 2022 16:38

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Author: Joanne Brown ORCID iD

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