The New Science of Love
How Understanding Your Brain’s Wiring Can Help Rekindle Your Relationship
The New Science of Love
How Understanding Your Brain’s Wiring Can Help Rekindle Your Relationship
Frances Cohen Praver
ISBN: 1402253753
288 pages,
List Price: $14.00
“Enlightening…insightful…understandable.”
-Paul E. Bendheim, MD
Your brain is the heart of love.
Did you know that you already own some cutting-edge tools for creating deep, lasting change? They’re available to you anytime and anywhere-and they’re inside your head. Dr. Fran Cohen Praver will show you how to access these tools and literally use your brain to help bring back love. By understanding a few ways your mind works, you can take advantage of its phenomena and strength to create change in your relationship-by creating change in yourself. Discover the inspirational program that pulls the latest neuroscience from the laboratory into a powerful idea you can use at home-and in your heart.
Crossroads at Midlife: Your Aging Parents, Your Emotions, and Your Self
Frances Cohen Praver
Foreword by Irwin Hirsch
Book Code: C8183
ISBN: 0-275-98183-5
DOI: 10.1336/0275981835
184 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: 6/30/2004
List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £22.99)
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With medical science, health care, and healthy lifestyles extending our lifespans as never before, more and more midlife adults are finding themselves caring for their aging parents. This role can trigger not only logistical and financial challenges, but also great emotional upheaval. There is a reversal of roles as the child―often in the midst of raising his or her own adolescent or young adult offspring―becomes the caretaker of the parent. A parent’s aging and mortality elicits strong feelings of loss, and a stark realization of one’s own aging and mortality. Past, present, and future paths converge, and the caretaker is at the center of that crossroads. Psychologist Praver―a specialist working with such caretakers―shows us their inner worlds, and how they used a difficult point in their lives to embark on a journey of self-understanding and self-transformation―a journey toward a more meaningful life for themselves.
Readers can gain a better understanding of their own lives― and know they are not alone in their struggles to contend with and find powerful benefits from the emotional side of caring for an aging parent. Distress can become peace of mind, as we see in the stories of men and women who sought Praver’s help. Relationships that might be weakened by a caretaker role―relationships between caretakers and their children, spouses, and friends―can actually grow stronger with the experience. Profound issues affecting caretakers are shared in this evocative book, which is an enlightening and enjoyable read.
Daring Wives: Insight into Women’s Desires for Extramarital Affairs
Frances Cohen Praver
Book Code: C8813
ISBN: 0-275-98813-9
DOI: 10.1336/0275988139
200 pages, n/a
Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: 3/30/2006
List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £22.99)
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Riveting vignettes show the inner and outer lives of women engaged in extramarital affairs. In spotlighting the many influences that spur women to cheat―from marital discord, childhood histories and sociopolitical history to pop and postmodern culture―Dr. Praver neither condemns nor condones such affairs. Instead, she aims to help wives and husbands question their own desires and actions, recognize their own roles in marital problems, and become inspired to find creative solutions. This work is an intimate and comprehensive examination of wives’ desires for extramarital affairs. It includes vignettes from younger and older wives, as well as working, stay-at-home and remarried wives, from those with and without children, and from those who turn to same-sex affairs. The authoritative and scholary underpinnings are presented in a reader-friendly style that will appeal to all women, as well as to clinicians and academics.
Readers who are involved in or considering extramarital affairs will feel supported, validated, and inspired to enter into a dialogue for change. This book and its vivid case studies, filled with dialogue that allows readers a front-row seat in the therapy room, inspire one to listen and learn without harsh perjorative judgments. While the issues here are profound, the book is always evocative and enjoyable.