About this title: Distinguished psychologist Dr. Nathaniel Branden offers us a new understanding of the meaning of romantic love--what love is and what it depends on for fulfillment. His vision of love is at once passionate and thoroughly appropriate to our times and grounded in our nature as human beings. He reveals romantic love to be a pathway not only to ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553236835ISBN:0553236830
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. GOOD+! Would be VG except for spine creasing! Tanned pages from age; Tight binding; Interior pages clean; Covers have VERY mild edgewear & slight crease on back-o/w in GREAT SHAPE! read more
Edition: First Bantam Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553200010ISBN:0553200011
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Moderate cover, edge wear. Pages very good. What love is, why love is born, it sometimes grows, it sometimes dies. 224 pages. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780553275551ISBN:0553275550
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. shelf and cover wear; edge wear; crease on spine; pages good with slight browing; 4-17-08. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fair. Ready to read. Book has moderate wear with some use to cover and binding. No missing pages but may have some markings. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
By Jyriii,
Just another automaton nation, 13, Finland
"Love requires psychological maturity
This is the paradox: only when we stop fighting the fact of our aloneness are we ready for "romantic" love. Because one's manner of understanding his partner is only a reflection of his manner of understanding himself. If a human being is always on the run, always engaged in doing something, he has little or no chance to get to know himself.
I think that was fundamentally the most important teaching of this book. After a slow start the book gets a bit better towards the end. But then, in the end, there's the loathsome claim (in the epilogue), which pretty much sums up the saddening misconception about love: "It is not possible to feel love," the author states... -So, does it make love just another dead dogma, then? Only some social "illusion?"
Personally, I claim one can pretty concretely FEEL love even when thinking honestly about things, devoid of any conditioned bias. -And one should not forget the notion that "God is love.""
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