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Intimacy and Solitude: Balancing Closeness and Independence
Intimacy and Solitude Balancing Closeness and Independence Author:Stephanie Dowrick Dowrick, a British psychotherapist (and co-founder of the Women's Press in England), examines the complementary roles of intimacy and solitude in this informed and accessible analysis. Basing her theories on the work of such therapists as Alfred Adler, Carl Jung and Roberto Assagioli, she argues that the way in which people experience their sens... more »e of self will mirror the way they develop intimate relationships. Through interviews and her own life story, Dowrick discusses how early childhood experiencesexperiences that are often different for men and womendetermine one's sense of self and eventually one's handling of sexual relationships. In both heterosexual and gay relationships, Dowrick posits, it is important to stop viewing the other as an extension of oneself in order to succeed at intimacy. True solitude, she notes, can develop self-knowledge, which is the key to closeness with others.« less