this study sets out to examine of the effectiveness of family therapy based bowen emotion system on love styles and intimacy among counseling applicant women, sanandaj city. the design of the study is as  quasi-experimental and pre test and post test conducted on the control group. the data population includes all of counseling applicant women of sanandaj city, one of the provinces of kurdistan...

A Quick guide to Love Spots: striking male-specific regions of the eye found in some insects that are used for detecting and chasing females.

This article examines the possibility that romantic love (with intensity, engagement, and sexual interest) can exist in long-term relationships. A review of taxonomies, theory, and research suggests that romantic love, without the obsession component typical of early stage romantic love, can and does exist in long-term marriages, and is associated with marital satisfaction, well-being, and high...

Five studies investigated the links among narcissism, self-esteem, and love. Across all studies, narcissism was associated primarily with a game-playing love style. This link was found in reports of general love styles (Study 1a) and of love in ongoing romantic relationships (Studies 1b-3, 5). Narcissists' game-playing love style was the result of a need for power and autonomy (Study 2) and was...

Throughout the ages, love has been defined as a motivated and goal-directed mechanism with explicit and implicit mechanisms. Recent evidence demonstrated that the explicit representation of love recruits subcorticocortical pathways mediating reward, emotion, and motivation systems. However, the neural basis of the implicit (unconscious) representation of love remains unknown. To assess this que...

in the following, i describe the sufi path (tariqa) as a dialectical process which transforms the person through love. i examine the belief system of islamic mystics as a journey involving both creativity and passion. i do so by using a fresh approach, a perspective that has heretofore yet to be applied to the spiritual alchemy of the sufis.

Love has been a recurrent topic throughout history, and especially, literature. Moreover, there is generalized agreement about its relevance for health emotional well-being, and quality of life. This study was carried out with a sample of 376 persons with ID. The goals of the work were to analyze a theoretical model of love in people with intellectual disabilities by means of the methodology of...

MARRIAGE FOR THE MARRIED By Dr. Mary Macaulay. (Delisle, 12s. 6d.) Here are two books about love and loving relationships written by two worldly wise and experienced people. While one is about love outside marriage, and the other about it within the marriage-bond, both authors base their books on the belief that each person is seeking in life a satisfying loving relationship with another, and this

Part One addresses the question whether the fact that some persons love something, worship it, or deeply care about it, can endow moral status on that thing. I argue that the answer is ‘‘no.’’ While some cases lend great plausibility to the view that love or worship can endow moral status, there are other cases in which love or worship clearly fails to endow moral status. Furthermore, there is ...

CONTEXT First coitus is considered a major transitional event imbued with cultural relevance. Research has focused on classifying women as virgins, with primary interest in pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention and less on sexuality. This study prospectively explored young women's sexual interest and love at first and subsequent coitus. METHODS Daily diary data were collecte...