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Couple Relationships in a Global Context: Understanding Love and Intimacy Across Cultures

Editor : Angela Abela, Editor : Sue Vella, Editor : Suzanne Piscopo

Table of Contents

Part I - The Significance of the Couple Relationship
1. Understanding Love Relationships in a Global Context: Supporting Couples Across Cultures
Angela Abela, Suzanne Piscopo, Sue Vella

2. The Significance of the Couple Relationship in the Twenty-First Century
Angela Abela

Part II - How Couple Relationships Are Changing in Different Parts of the World
3. The Existential and Relational Meaning of Intimacy and Love for Couples in Scandinavia: Through a Lens of Scandinavian Fiction and Drama
Anne Kyoung Sook Øfsti

4. The Evolution of the Couple in France over the Past 30 Years
Michel Maestre

5. Changing Couple Relationships in India
Lina Kashyap

6. Couple Relationships in the Arab Region: Changes and Renegotiations
Hoda Rashad, Zeinab Khadr, Eman Mostafa

7. Couple Relationships in China
Dan Wang, Yan Xia

8. Couple Relationships in Mediterranean Malta
Suzanne Piscopo, Sue Vella, Angela Abela

Part III - Couples in Diversity
9. Home Is Where the Heart Is: Aporias of Love and Belonging in Intercultural Couples
Reenee Singh

10. Stigma, Social Change and the Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples
David M. Frost

11. Falling in Love in Later Life
Margaret Hellie Huyck

12. Polygamous Marriages: An Arab-Islamic Perspective
Alean Al-Krenawi

13. The Couple Relationship When One of the Partners Has an Acquired Physical Disability
Elaine Schembri Lia

Part IV - Global Trends in Couple Relationships
14. Framing Couples in the Media: Coupledom, Well-Being and Comedy
Brenda Murphy

15. Keeping Couples Together when Apart, and Driving Them Apart when Together: Exploring the Impact of Smartphones on Relationships in the UK
Mark McCormack, M. F. Ogilvie

Part V - Global Trends in Couple Relationships
16. Online Dating: Modern Options of Searching for a Partner and Its Implications for Psychotherapy
Christiane Eichenberg, Jessica Huss, Cornelia Küsel

17. Fidelity, Infidelity, and Non-monogamy
Tina Timm, Adrian Blow

18. Understanding Long-Term Couple Relationships
Carrie Cole, Donald Cole

19. Why and How Couples Leave Relationships: A Twenty-First Century Landscape
Jim Sheehan

20. Between the Couple and Living Alone
Lynn Jamieson

Part VI - Supporting Couple Relationships
21. Systemic Therapy and Narratives of Attachment
Arlene Vetere

22. Supporting Parents as Partners: The Couple Context of Parenting, a Personal and Academic Journey
Carolyn Pape Cowan, Philip A. Cowan

23. Supporting Links Between Living Apart Together (LAT) Couples Through Online Couple Therapy
Pierre Cachia

24. No Couple Is an Island: Communities of Support in Couple Relationships
Kevin Schembri

25. Policy Perspectives on Couple Relationships
Sue Vella, Angela Abela, Suzanne Piscopo