Holding pattern : how communication prevents intimacy in adults /
"Holding Pattern examines the chronically single - the midlife adult who has failed to find the intimacy he or she seeks. Karen Buzzard, noted communication scholar, illuminates how human communication styles influence our capacity for intimacy, tracing the roots of adult miscommunications to t...
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East Lansing, Mich. :
Michigan State University Press,
c2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Intimacy and Adulthood
- Introduction: The Lonely Heart in Middle Passage. 1. Ur-moments in Communication: Developing an Adult Perspective
- Pt. II. Affectional Communication. 2. Getting Enough: Moving from Narcissism to Outward Focusing. 3. Jonathan's Story: A Torn Net. 4. Patching Our Torn Nets: A Stable Base and Consolidation of the Affectional Self
- Pt. III. Ethical Communication. 5. Do the Right Thing: Moving from Victimization to Responsibility. 6. Adam's Story: The Glass Prison. 7. Laura's Story: Magnetic Field. 8. Escaping Our Magnetic Fields and Glass Prisons: The Oedipal Complex and Consolidation of the Ethical Self
- Pt. IV. Authentic Communication. 9. What We May Be: Moving from too Closed or too Open to Healthy Boundaries. 10. Beatrice's Story: "Conversion" 11. Ian's Story: "Devotion" 12. Completing the Self: Identity Resolution and Consolidation of the Authentic Self
- Pt. V. Your Life, Your Masterpiece. 13. Conclusions.