Professionalised intimacy: how dementia care workers navigate between domestic intimacy and institutional detachment

Intimacy and terminal care.

Four cases are summarized in which the general practitioner is involved in the terminal care of one partner of a stable marital relationship. The need to conceptualize the expectations of the patient, the family and the doctor in terminal care is stressed. An attempt is made to illustrate how the quality of the pre-existing sexual relationship, the dying person's own sexuality, and ultimately t...

The app generation: How today's youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world

When I finished reading The App Generation by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis, I was struck by an example in the book about young people who have never been lost because of their smart phones. With a global positioning system (GPS) app or Google Maps at their disposal, they have never had to problem-solve or orient themselves based on a landmark, or rely on memory. This, the authors say, is an e...

Sexual intimacy between psychotherapists and patients.

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Intimacy Deficits, Fear of Intimacy, and Loneliness among Sexual Offenders

Intimacy defi cits and loneliness recently have been theorized as infl uential factors in the etiology and maintenance of sexually offending behaviors, although to date there has been a lack of empirical research conducted to address this proposition. The present study examined intimacy defi cits, fear of intimacy, and loneliness among intrafamilial child molesters, rapists, nonsexually offendi...

Creative Computers, Improvisation and Intimacy