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A Playful Spirit
The great narratives of religion and nationhood were battered in the twentieth century by the dual forces of globalization and postmodernism. In the uncertainty of broken traditions, many people looking for God retreated into a regressive fundamentalism, and others abandoned themselves to nihilism and cynicism. But is there another way? In this volume, esteemed sociologist and therapist Mark W. Teismann offers a fresh approach to spiritual pursuits, one that neither relies upon absolutes nor leaves seekers in a void of disbelief. This approach is to consider the exercise of spirituality as a type of play. Teismann takes the reader on a whirlwind ride through the different aspects of play and...
The Green-Eyed Marriage
In this honest, sympathetic book, marital and family therapist Robert L. Barker offers real help for men and women suffering the emotional costs of a jealous partner's suspicion and rage. Based on his extensive work with troubled couples, "The Green-Eyed Marriage" answers these and many other questions about pathological jealousy and its causes and offers practical techniques to minimize jealous confrontations and control them.
Jealousy
Deeply ingrained in human nature, jealousy occurs in everyone's life, with varying intensity and significance. Profoundly puzzling, jealousy provokes humans to irrational, sometimes violent acts against others or against themselves. It is a passion that has fascinated writers, storytellers, and audiences through the ages. Hildegard Baumgart, a practicing marriage counselor, pursues a multilayered exploration of jealousy that is at once public history, based on literary and cultural records, and private history, drawn from individual clinical cases and psychoanalytic practice. In the process she discovers provocative new answers to two central questions: How can one understand jealousy, wheth...
The Stepfamily
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A Playful Spirit
Teismann embarks on a whirlwind ride through different aspects of play and how they relate to spirituality. Drawing on classical philosophers, memories of childhood, developmental science, poets, and his long career as a psychotherapist, he explores how the spirit of play informs our moral pursuits and spiritual yearnings.
Social Casework
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Sexuelle Eifersucht
Die Kennzeichen und Bewältigungsmöglichkeiten sexueller Eifersucht werden in diesem Band erstmals systematisch und umfassend aus kulturanthropologischer Sicht bestimmt. Eifersucht wird als in vielfältigen Variationen auftretender, inseiner Grundform jedoch einheitlicher und universaler Prozeß erkannt und in seinen Dimensionen und Aspekten erörtert und erklärt. Durch die vergleichende (und ausführlich illustrierte) Analyse des Umgangs mit sexueller Eifersucht in den verschiedensten Ethnien/Kulturen werden die Möglichkeiten einer Überwindung oder Reduzierung sexueller Eifersucht herausgearbeitet, beschrieben und bewertet.
