Editing Personal Relationships

Personal Relationships

I wish I could recommend this book more warmly. There is an enormous amount that might be helpfully written on the subject ot" personal relationships,?the source of perhaps our greatest happiness and our greatest misery in this world. And modern psychology, based as it is on the intensive study of individuals in their emotional reactions to other people from babyhood upwards, has a wealth of li...

Sex Problems and Personal Relationships

written half and the two parts are quite separate, the book is scarcely a true integration of their views. This is a pity for each has something to give the other. One feels for example that the letter written to an American soldier (p. 47) by Mr. Parkinson Smith which he modestly regards as inadequate?would have given more help if both had collaborated in writing it. As it is, the book remains...

Up close and personal: social presence in mediated personal relationships

The likes of clarity and efficiency are good communication concepts for designers and evaluators of business communication tools. They make little sense, however, when the design context of an interactive system is the support of a personal relationship. What matters then is that people feel they are ‘there’ for one another. This paper describes a new way of understanding Social Presence in tec...

Personal Relationships, the Handicapped and the Community

The integration of the handicapped into full community life poses difficult problems which have so far been largely glossed over in simplistic debates. It is the quality of life which ultimately needs examining, and for the handicapped this cannot be divorced from close comparisons with the experiences of normal people. The full acceptance of the handicapped by their normal peers is probably an...

The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships