intimacy

Examples of intimacy in the following topics:

• Attraction: Loving

  • Psychologist Robert Sternberg views love as a triangle whose three sides consist of passion, intimacy, and commitment.
  • Companionate love, on the other hand, is best defined as passionate love that has settled to a warm enduring love between partners in a relationship; in Sternberg's terms, it is comprised of intimacy and commitment. 
  • Fatuous love is both passionate and committed, but lacks the stability that intimacy brings to relationships.
  • According to Sternberg, love consists of three components: passion (infatuation), commitment (companionship), and intimacy (liking).

• The Challenges of Adulthood

  • Erik Erikson proposed that people in early and middle adulthood struggle with two particular crises: intimacy vs isolation and generativity vs. stagnation.
  • Intimacy vs. isolation (from around age 20 into 30's and beyond) marks the challenge of being alone versus being involved in meaningful relationships.

• Socioemotional Development in Adulthood

  • These areas relate to the tasks that Erik Erikson referred to as generativity vs. stagnation and intimacy vs. isolation.
  • A lack of positive and meaningful relationships during adulthood can result in what Erikson termed the crisis of intimacy vs. isolation in his theory of psychosocial development.

• Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development

  • People in early adulthood (20s through early 40s) are concerned with intimacy vs. isolation.

• Relationships and Families in Adulthood

  • The need for intimacy, compatibility, and such filtering agents as common background and goals will influence whether or not interaction continues.

• Body-Oriented Psychotherapies

  • In addition, the importance of ethical issues in body-oriented therapy has been highlighted on account of the intimacy of the techniques used in several kinds of therapies.

• Cultural Influences on Sexual Motivation

  • Factors such as stress, anxiety, fatigue, level of intimacy with one's partner, outside distractions, physical health, drugs or alcohol use, and mental illnesses such as depression, can all have an effect on sex drive.

• Cluster A: Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders

  • In addition, it is difficult to develop rapport with people who experience closeness and intimacy as more uncomfortable and anxiety-inducing.

• Behavior Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis

  • Behavior therapy has proven effective in many areas and has been used to address intimacy in couples, relationships, forgiveness, chronic pain, anorexia, chronic distress, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and obesity.

• Cluster B: Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

  • There are many stigmatizing features of BPD, including emotional instability, intense unstable interpersonal relationships, a need for intimacy, and a fear of rejection.