The relationship between love and the symbiotic phase of childhood is explored from a new angle in terms of a conflict between "the woman I love" and "the woman I cannot live without." Love requires dependency, but it can also lead to giving up independent existence; then it becomes inimical to the relationship.

Background: Failure to establish and maintain close romantic relationships with commitment can hinder an individual’s development and have adverse effects on his/her well-being in life due to the potential emergence of serious problems. The present study aimed to investigate the relative effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and schema therapy on love trauma syndrome and self...

Mature love requires the establishment of a sustained relationship with a romantically attractive, non-incestuous object toward whom a certain amount of ambivalence can be tolerated and in relationship with whom affection and sensuality can both be expressed and received. This concept underscores the necessity to have mastered the oedipal realities of childhood (eg, feelings of smallness, rival...

We study transport for a scalar model of Love waves. These waves arise in the propagation of seismic waves whose energy is concentrated in the vicinity of the earth surface. We derive radiative transfer equations from rst principles for the angularly resolved energy density of the Love waves in a simpliied acoustic model. We consider a rough top surface with weak uctuations at the scale of the ...

The article presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, psychological, and sociological review of cultural perspectives on love: how culture affects our experience and expression of love. The evidence suggests that love is a universal emotion experienced by a majority of people, in various historical eras, and in all the world’s cultures, but manifests itself in different ways because c...

the main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of identity made by a brand for customrers on their anti-brand activities through brand love and brand jealousy. the present study is an applied research and is descriptive/ survey research in terms of methodology. the statistical population consists of all benetton customers who buy at benetton store in shriaz city, of which 384 custo...