Full name: Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time

Author: Stephen A. Mitchell Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393323733 0393323730

Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships--it becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk management. Mitchell shows that love can endure, if only we become aware of our self-destructive efforts to protect ourselves from its risks. "Those who read this book will love more wisely because of it."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon "[A] work on romance that is rich and multi-layered."--Publishers Weekly "Cheerful, open, and humane--you'd definitely have wanted him as your analyst."--Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times Book Review "[T]houghtful, compassionate, and profoundly optimistic."--JoAnn Gutin, Salon.com Similar books: So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson ACT Made Simple by Russ Harris Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha Linehan The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull A Mind of Her Own by Anne Campbell Love Is Stronger Than Death by Stanley M. Giannet The Trauma Spectrum by Robert C. Scaer The Matrix of the Mind by Thomas Ogden Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller Lying with the Heavenly Woman by Robert A. Johnson The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick Detecting Lies and Deceit by Aldert Vrij Ungifted by Scott Barry Kaufman Blame My Brain by Nicola Morgan The Divided Mind by John E. Sarno A Primer in Positive Psychology by Christopher Peterson Personality Type by Lenore Thomson The Suicidal Mind by Edwin S. Shneidman Violence by James Gilligan