The Dark Side of Close Relationships

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-08-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This volume examines the negative or "dark" elements of close relationships. for use by scholars and students in social psychology, personal relationships, and interpersonal communication.

Table of Contents

Preface vii(4)
Introduction: Dusk, Detritus, and Delusion: A Prolegomenon to the Dark Side of Close Relationships xi
I: SEDUCING 1(70)
1. Fatal Attraction
3(30)
Diane H. Felmlee
2. The Dark Side of Jealousy and Envy: Desire, Delusion, Desperation, and Destructive Communication
33(38)
Laura K. Guerrero
Peter A. Andersen
II: CONFUSING 71(48)
3. (Mis) Understanding
73(30)
Alan L. Sillars
4. Who's Up on the Low Down: Gossip in Interpersonal Relationships
103(16)
Marianne E. Jaeger
Anne A. Skelder
Ralph L. Rosnow
III: BRUISING 119(58)
5. Patterns of Conflict in Personal Relationships
121(32)
Susan J. Messman
Daniel J. Canary
6. Codependence: The Paradoxical Nature of the Functional-Afflicted Relationship
153(24)
Beth A. Le Poire
Jennifer S. Hallett
Howard Giles
IV: ABUSING 177(88)
7. Sexual Coercion in Courtship Relations
179(54)
Brian H. Spitzberg
8. Obsessional Relational Intrusion and Stalking
233(32)
William R. Cupach
Brian H. Spitzberg
V: LOSING 265(102)
9. Losing, Leaving, and Letting Go: Coping with Nonmarital Breakups
267(40)
Anne L. Weber
10. To Love or Be Loved in Vain: The Trials and Tribulations of Unrequited Love
307(20)
Ellen Bratslavsky
Roy F. Baumeister
Kristen L. Sommer
11. Disrupted Interpersonal Relationships and Mental Health Problems
327(40)
Chris Segrin
VI: MUSINGS 367(28)
12. Investigating the Positive and Negative Sides of Personal Relationships: Through a Lens Darkly?
369(26)
Karen S. Rook
Author Index 395(16)
Subject Index 411

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