Product Description: Smart Strategies for Dealing with People Who Are Really Hard to LoveMost of us have someone in our life that we care about, but who is really hard to love: a spouse or sibling with an addiction or anger problem, a parent whose actions frighten or frustrate you, an adult child whom you feel makes the wrong choices over and over, or a friend or other relative who can't get it together...read more

Product Description: Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. Love and Hate seeks to answer some important questions about these all consuming passions. Many patients seeking psychotherapy feel unlovable or full of rage and hate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out the impossible object? Is it that we desire things because they are unavailable, and therefore, to keep desire alive, we need to prevent its fulfillment? Renata Salecl explores the distributing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through an investigation of phenomenon as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day, classic Hollywood melodramas, the Sirens' song, Ceause? cu's Rumania and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Through personal examples and anecdotes, Valles casts a revealing light on the conflicting emotions innate in every relationship--marriage, family, friendship--and examines what steps can be taken to safeguard and nuture our relations with others...read more

Product Description: "The world is full of hate but few people know how to hate well". So begins Gerald Schoenewolf's study of hate. His main argument is that most people hate in destructive ways. As individuals we routinely act out hateful feelings - from jealousy to loathing to bitterness to contempt to disgust to irritation to rage - with hardly a backward glance...read more