Free Download Laliv Melamed, "Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence"
English | ISBN: 0520390296 | 2023 | 307 pages | PDF | 1489 KB
In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations.

Free Download Chelsea Schields, "Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean"
English | ISBN: 0520390814 | 2023 | 304 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world's largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experiment, oil corporations and political authorities offshored intimacy, circumventing laws regulating sex, reproduction, and the family in a bid to maximize profits and turn Caribbean subjects into citizens. Historian Chelsea Schields demonstrates how Caribbean people both embraced and challenged efforts to alter intimate behavior in service to the energy economy. Moving from Caribbean oil towns to European metropolises and examining such issues as sex work, contraception, kinship, and the constitution of desire, Schields narrates a surprising story of how racialized concern with sex shaped hydrocarbon industries as the age of oil met the end of empire.

Free Download James Reapsome, "Song of Songs: A Dialogue of Intimacy"
English | 2002 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 0877888264 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
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Free Download Nancy Yousef, "Romantic Intimacy"
English | 2013 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 0804786097, 080479944X | PDF | 6,5 mb
How much can we know about what other people are feeling and how much can we sympathize or empathize with them? The term "intimacy" captures a tension between a confidence in the possibility of shared experience and a competing belief that thoughts and feelings are irreducibly private. This book is an interdisciplinary study of shared feeling as imagined in eighteenth-century ethics, romantic literature, and twentieth-century psychoanalysis. Original interpretations of Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Austen show how mutual recognition gives way to the appreciation of varied, nonreciprocal forms of intimacy. The book concludes with accounts of empathy and unconscious communication in the psychoanalytic setting, revealing the persistence of romantic preoccupations in modernity. Yousef offers a compelling account of how philosophical confidence in sympathy is transformed by literary attention to uneven forms of emotional response, including gratitude, disappointment, distraction, and absorption. In its wide-ranging and eclectic engagement with current debates on the relationship between ethics, affect, and aesthetics, the book will be crucial reading for students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture, as well as for literary theorists.

Free Download Phoebe Caldwell, "Delicious Conversations: Reflections on autism, intimacy and communication"
English | ISBN: 1908993057 | 2012 | 180 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Delicious Conversations, Phoebe Caldwell offers us her personal insights into how we can experience intimacy with those on the autistic spectrum, based on years of experience working in the field. The book deals not only with ways of working in a professional context but also takes a more general look at the nature of affective communication and how we can learn to 'read' other people by recognising our subconscious reactions to their body language. Autism is a condition characterised by aloneness, separation and inward focus. Through her compelling reflections Caldwell shows us that by tuning in to our partners' body language we can not only communicate with people with autism but also share an emotional connection, helping to combat the isolating nature of autistic spectrum conditions. Caldwell offers practical advice for ways that we can tap into our intuitive minds and share an intimate connection with our communication partners, building a dialogue that does not rely on speech but makes use of all of our senses. Using examples from her own experience Caldwell emphasises that these techniques can help to alleviate the distress that may be at the route of stereotypic behaviours, by communicating with people on their own terms and in their own 'language'.

Free Download Attachment and the Defence Against Intimacy ; Understanding and Working with Avoidant Attachment, Self-Hatred, and Shame By Linda Cundy
2018 | 134 Pages | ISBN: 1138614971 | PDF | 2 MB
This book combines attachment theory and research with clinical experience to provide practitioners with tools for engaging with individuals who are indifferent, avoidant, highly defensive, and who struggle to make and maintain intimate connections with others. Composed of four papers presented at a Wimbledon Guild conference in 2017, this text examines the origins of avoidant attachment patterns in early life, describes research tools that offer a more refined understanding of this insecure attachment pattern, explores the internal object worlds of "dismissing" adults, and considers the impact on couple relationships when one or both partners avoid intimacy or dependency. Each chapter contains case studies with children and families, adolescents, adults and couples that acknowledge the challenges of engaging with these "shut down" individuals, with authors sharing what they have learned from their patients about what is needed for effective psychotherapy. It is an accessible book full of clinical richness and insight and will be invaluable to practitioners who are interested in deepening their understanding and clinical skills from an attachment perspective.

Free Download Brad DeFord, "Living, Loving and Loss: The Interplay of Intimacy, Sexuality and Grief "
English | ISBN: 0895036533 | 2013 | 252 pages | PDF | 2 MB
One of the unspoken aspects of mourning concerns the ways that loss affects our intimate relationships and our sexual expressiveness. This text opens these subjects for conversation, with the aim of promoting the trust, care, and respect that enable us to be vulnerable. It purposefully covers a range of topics, including: (1) the meaning of intimacy and the significance of sexuality, providing a basis for the use of these terms throughout the book; (2) death, grief, and differences in sexual orientation, including death and intimacy in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and the losses endured by young people due to gender issues; (3) loss of relationship and restoration of intimacy in families, including pharmacological effects on the grief processes of widowers; grieving a not-so-loved parent; the "layered losses" of infertility and intimacy; and the tolls of war-intimacy and sexuality challenges for soldiers and their families; (4) adjusting to life's losses associated with aging or illness or infirmity, including Alzheimer's and dementia-related illnesses, physical health losses after 50, and intimacy, sex, and hospice-self-determination and dignity at the end of life; and (5) religious bases that have shaped our perspectives for understanding intimacy, sexuality, and healing after loss, and which give us hope-including the spiritual reflections of a rabbi and a Christian voice in defining what is right. Set in a framework that is both psychological and spiritual, the well-researched contributions are intended to acknowledge these experiences both professionally and personally. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography, valuable for research and reference.

Free Download David Stoop, Jan Stoop, "Just Us: Finding Intimacy With God and With Each Other"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0800725964, 0830746285 | EPUB | pages: 188 | 1.6 mb
Marriages have a better opportunity of thriving when couples spend time together with God. In Just Us, David and Jan Stoop provide just what couples need to make the most of the precious time they spend together seeking God. Each week's devotions revolve around a specific theme. In just a few minutes each day, couples will focus on God's view of marriage, how God blesses marriage, how to grow in love and intimacy, faithfulness, improving communication, resolving conflicts, the roles of husband and wife, building trust, forgiveness, the importance of prayer, and how to have an intentional marriage. At the end of each devotion, couples will enjoy the "Talking Together" section with thought-provoking questions for the couple to discuss and further develop the theme or strengthen it in their marriage. By setting aside short daily times together each week, every couple has the opportunity to plant these themes deeper into their lives. What a gift for couples!

Free Download Henri J. M. Nouwen, "Intimacy"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0060663235 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.7 mb
"On the long road it's good to have Nouwen and his divining rod. Deftly he bends toward the drop of spiritual wisdom caked in the most ordinary things."

Free Download Viviana Coles, Dr. Viviana Coles (Narrator), DMFT (Narrator), "The 4 Intimacy Styles: The Key to Lasting Physical Intimacy"
English | ASIN: B0CV1F8V6T | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:07:00 | 117 MB
Are you in or hoping to prevent being in a sexless marriage? Have you noticed a significant decrease in sexual frequency and connection in your long-term committed relationship?
Discover your Intimacy Style and gain the key to lasting physical intimacy. Since 2003, Dr. Viviana Coles (Licensed Relationship and Sex Therapist) has focused her private practice (Houston Relationship Therapy) and her career in the media on working with individuals and couples experiencing emotional and physical intimacy issues. In The 4 Intimacy Styles, she has shared her proven method of repairing broken intimacy bonds and rekindling sexual intimacy in long-term committed relationships.