The Dark Side of Close Relationships (repost)
The Dark Side of Close Relationships By Brian H. Spitzberg, William R. Cupach
Publisher: Ro utle dg e 1998 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 0805824871 , 0805824863 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Ro utle dg e 1998 | 440 Pages | ISBN: 0805824871 , 0805824863 | PDF | 1 MB
This collection of essays represents a follow-up to the editors' 1994 publication, The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. In the preface to that collection of essays, they argued that "To fully understand how people function effectively requires us to consider how individuals cope with social interaction that is difficult, problematic, challenging, distressing, and disruptive." In this companion volume, the focus expands from social interaction to close relationships. Aside from the inherent need to investigate the bad as well as the good of interpersonal relationships, the editors and their colleagues simply find the dark side metaphor to be intellectually arousing. It stimulates investigation of important yet often neglected phenomena, and it especially encourages consideration of the hidden and forbidden, and the paradoxical and ironic elements of human relating.