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Enduring Desire

Your Guide to Lifelong Intimacy

• By Michael E. Metz, and Barry W. McCarthy.

Published October 2010

In Enduring Desire, authors Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy inspire and motivate readers with real-life examples and clear, helpful individual and couple exercises to reach for realistic and high quality sexual satisfaction as a couple. Throughout the book, they promote positive, realistic…
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Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals

• Edited by Stephen B. Levine, Candace B. Risen and Stanley E. Althof.

Published January 2010

The constantly changing field inspired the second edition of Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals. In a state-of-the-art guide, Dr. Levine and his associates continue to help professionals with the assessment and treatment of a large array of sexual concerns. Written in a…
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Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style

Sharing Desire, Pleasure, and Satisfaction

• By Barry W. McCarthy, and Emily McCarthy.

Published January 2009

Winner of the 2009 Smart Marriages® Impact Award Think all sex should be earth shattering? The quality of most couple sex doesn’t measure up to the much distorted image of the perfect romantic love/passionate sex encounter portrayed in popular culture. In Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style:…
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Handbook of Relationship Initiation

• Edited by Susan Sprecher, Amy Wenzel and John Harvey.

Published June 2008

The Handbook of Relationship Initiation is the first volume to focus specifically on the very beginning stage of relationships – their origin. In this Handbook, leading scholars on relationships review the literature on various processes related to the initiation of relationships: how people meet,…
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Demystifying Love

Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional

• By Stephen B. Levine.

Published December 2006

Intended primarily for mental health professionals, Demystifying Love deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians. The book discusses in a small package highly readable and useful topics, such as love (as both noun and verb), psychological intimacy, sexual desire, as well as…
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Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Theory and Application

• By Everett L. Worthington, Jr..

Published May 2006

To be unforgiving is harmful. The inability to come to terms with one’s anger or strife often can lead to stress disorders, mental health disorders, and relationship problems. Forgiveness is a personal decision. Forgiveness and Reconciliation focuses on individual experiences with forgiveness,…
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Close Relationships

Functions, Forms and Processes

• Edited by Patricia Noller, and Judith A. Feeney.

Published January 2006

Close Relationships: Functions, Forms and Processes provides an overview of current theory and research in the area of close relationships, written by internationally renowned scholars whose work is at the cutting edge of research in the field. The volume consists of three sections: introductory…
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Without Condoms

Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking

• By Michael Shernoff.

Published October 2005

After years of activism, risk awareness, and AIDS prevention, increasing numbers of gay men are not using condoms, and new infections of HIV are on the rise. Using case studies and exhaustive survey research, this timely, groundbreaking book allows men who have unprotected sex, a practice now known…
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Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Risks and Opportunities

• Edited by Ann C. Crouter, and Alan Booth.

Published October 2005

In this volume, Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities, top scholars in the field of family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, spanning such diverse topics as the…
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Falling in Love

Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose

• By Ayala Malach Pines.

Published June 2005

Falling in Love is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how and why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do, and argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers sound advice for making the right choices…
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