The papers featured in Attachment and Sexuality create a dense tapestry, each forming a separate narrative strand that elucidates different configurations of the relationship between attachment and sexuality. As a whole, the volume explores the areas of convergence and divergence, opposition, and integration between these two systems. It suggests that there is a bi-directional web of influences that weaves the attachment and sexual systems together in increasingly complex ways from infancy to adulthood. The volume’s unifying thread is the idea that the attachment system, and particularly the degree of felt security, or lack thereof in relation to early attachment figures, provides a paradigm of relatedness that forms a scaffold for the developmental unfolding of sexuality in all its manifestations. Such manifestations include infantile and adult, masturbatory and mutual, and normative and perverse. Also central to the papers is the idea that the development of secure attachment is predicated, in part, on the development of the capacity for mentalization, or the ability to envision and interpret the behavior of oneself and others in terms of intentional mental states, including desires, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Topics discussed in the book will help to shape the direction and tenor of further dialogues in the arena of attachment and sexuality.

A mistress and aide to a powerful Washington lobbyist loses her job when her affair compromises his cabinet nomination, a situation that worsens when she realizes that one of several suspects is trying to kill her. By the author of The Stepmother. Reprint.

For the readers of Olivia Goldsmith and Susan Isaacs comes a dramatic - and fun - thriller with an over-the-top ending that will leave readers gasping.For twenty-five years Emily Childs has been the perfect wife. She has devoted herself completely to her successful husband, Walter, on his climb to the top of the banking world, kept his home, raised his children, and entertained his clients. Now he is about to dump her for the younger, more beautiful Angela Hilliard, the perfect trophy for his life of conspicuous achievement.But suddenly Emily vanishes from her home amidst clear evidence of violence. The kidnapper - demanding an enormous ransom - is known only by his mysterious computerized voice. Is this Walter's sick plan to get rid of his wife without the scandal that might ruin his career? Is it his mistress's way of moving Emily aside? Or is it one of Walter's business rivals, determined to beat him in the race to the chairman's office? From her basement prison, Emily pleads with her husband to save her. But as her captors panic, she realizes that she will have to save herself. In a thriller that spans the financial towers of the world's money centers and the underworld markets of the Caribbean, Detective Andrew Hogan races against the ransom deadline to discover the identity of Emily's kidnapper. The ending to this novel of marriages, mistresses, and money is a shocker that serves as a warning to men who are reaching for that one final trophy.

When a lonely widower and father of three grown children marries a much-younger personal trainer, the woman becomes the target of a murderous attack that inadvertently causes the death of her husband, forcing her to prove her innocence by identifying the killer from among her stepchildren. By the author of The Trophy Wife. Reprint.

Marrying debonair widower William Andrews despite her reluctance to reenter into matrimony, Jane Warren struggles to understand her new husband's pervasive grief over his first wife's murder, a situation that turns deadly when Jane realizes that someone is trying to kill her as well. By the author of The Good Sister. Reprint.

When a reformed wealthy playboy dies in a tragic scuba diving accident during his honeymoon, the victim's mother works to prove that his new wife, who was responsible for his mended ways, is behind his death. Reprint.

Inheriting one of the largest communications empires in the world, beautiful Catherine and plain-but-intelligent Jennifer find their partnership challenged by would-be producer Dan, whose attraction to Jennifer becomes suspicious to Catherine.

Product Description: A special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, this book explores the impact of attachment research on contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Product Description: There is a fine line between genius and madness and Babysitter creator Andy Ristaino rides the fringe. When Setsuko Kagaku, a jet-pack wearing babysitter facing tension in her other-worldly Japanese high school, runs afoul of the popular American exchange student, chaos ensues! Setsuko, with the help of her new friends the wierdos, attempts to navigate her way through a maze of violence and conflict...read more

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Emily Childs has remained faithful to her husband for twenty five years, until he decides to dump her for a younger woman; and when Emily is kidnapped, she begins to wonder if her husband still loves her enough to save her. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Considers the clinical aspects of attachment research and psychoanalysis. Topics covered include attachment theory's contribution to the understanding of affective functioning in psychoanalysis, and borderline conditions and attachment.

Product Description: Asking how does the family affect a member with a serious psychiatric disorder, this study, by two researchers who conducted a long-term study at Yale University, outlines a specific therapy for both patient and family.