Couple Relationships in the 21st Century
Couple Relationships in the 21st Century
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DOI：
10.1057/9781137434432
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
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通讯作者：
Fink, J.
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作者：
Gabb, J.;Fink, J.
这本书对当代西方社会的爱情、亲密关系和个人生活进行了深刻而引人入胜的描述。作者利用丰富的定性和大规模调查数据来探索夫妻之间如何沟通，如何协商为人父母的压力和乐趣，以及在整个生命过程中性欲和亲密关系的变幻莫测。《21世纪的夫妻关系》聚焦于“日常生活”，拆解了维持一段关系的普通和平凡的工作，打破了持久的高质量关系和足够好或持久的关系之间的二分法。它反对将夫妻划分为不同的关系类型——通过年龄、父母身份或性取向来定义。从关系实践的角度来看，很明显没有“正常的夫妻”：夫妻做什么，夫妻就做什么。由伦敦跨文化夫妻中心主任兼塔维斯托克家庭治疗和系统研究中心联合主任Reenee Singh博士作序言，这一新的扩展版提供了对当代夫妻经验的宝贵批判性见解，将成为学者和学生、从事夫妻和家庭治疗的临床医生以及参与关系支持服务的人的必读读物。
This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love, intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society. The authors draw on rich qualitative and large-scale survey data to explore how couples communicate with each other, negotiate the pressures and pleasures of parenthood, and the vagaries of sexual desire and intimacy across life course. Focusing on ‘the everyday’, Couple Relationships in the 21st Century unpicks the ordinary and often mundane relationship work that goes into sustaining a relationship over time, breaking down the dichotomy between enduring relationships of quality and good enough or endured relationships. It contests the separation of couples into distinct relationship types–defined through age, parenthood or sexuality. Looking through the lens of relationship practices it is clear that there is no ‘normal couple’: couples are what couples do. With a foreword by Dr Reenee Singh, Director, London Intercultural Couples Centre and Co-Director, Tavistock Family Therapy and Systemic Research Centre, this new extended edition provides an invaluable critical insight on contemporary experiences of coupledom and will be essential reading for scholars and students, clinicians working in couple and family therapy, and those involved in relationship support services.