Intimate Relationships
Essays

Imagine this scenario: a patient has end stage heart failure, coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sleep apnea. She has refused any invasive treatments for many…

Social development is very important to most people. Social development allows people to develop friendships, form intimate relationships, get married, have families, and form successful relationships with their families.

Single parent families are a reality and there is a large body of empirical evidence documenting the disadvantages of children raised in single-parent homes. These disadvantages include areas of academic achievement such as a these children having a higher probability of lower overall GPA scores, poorer rates of graduation from high school, poorer rates of college attendance as well as other disadvantages such as increased risk for drug abuse

Are there specific inputs that are critical in terms of enjoying successful intimate relationships? And are there times during our lives when we accept an unequal level of inputs and outputs?

This research paper looks at the question of marital intimacy and whether it can be taught. The ppaper takes both a Biblical and a secular position, and looks at therapies that have been successful as well as the words in the Bible. Intimacy is defined and then met and unmet intimacy are looked at. The final section deals directly with the question of whether the research into the Bible and secular therapies reveal that it can be taught.

This paper is a critical analysis of the role of feminism in the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's film Late Spring (1949). This postwar Japanese film portrays a father and daughter living happily together until the father is pressured by his sister to 'pretend' to be getting remarried, so the girl will leave the house and find a husband of her own.

This paper will highlight post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its related causes such as abuse. The main idea here is to overview some of the causes of this disorder and to relate it with physiological and sociological aspects, some other important facts related to the topic will also be mentioned in order to give the reader a better idea about those individuals who are diagnosed with the post-traumatic stress.

This paper examines the 1980 Robert Redford film Ordinary People from a psychological perspective. It examines the lead character, Conrad, from the perspective of Erik Erikson's psychosocial stages of development. Specifically, it focuses on Conrad as he struggles to resolve the conflicts in both stage five and stage six of Erikson's psychosocial stages.

Women's Use Self-Disclosure in Interpersonal Intimate Relationships

Harriet Lerner's book, The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships provides a helpful and insightful look at anger in women's lives. She teaches women that anger can be a…