Book Announcement by Lawrence Josephs (USA)

The Dynamics of Infidelity: Applying Relationship Science to Psychotherapy Practice has been published in Italian by Raffaello Cortina Editore. In Emma Francia’s translation of this 2017 title, Lawrence Josephs argues for a new understanding of the psychological foundations of “cheating.”

The author asserts that most psychotherapy approaches tend to see infidelity as a manifestation of broader underlying problems and rarely offer insights or interventions to specifically address unfaithfulness and the impulses behind it. Drawing on research in social, personality, and evolutionary psychology that examines the crucial roles of attachment theory and “dark” personality traits such as narcissism and low empathy, Josephs offers a complex but intuitive model that explains how and when intimate relationships work, and don’t work. His integrative and compassionate approach to treatment is grounded in psychodynamic principles, yet uses interventions from a variety of approaches, including mentalization based therapies, emotion focused therapy, marital communication skills training, and mindfulness/acceptance techniques.

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Lawrence Josephs, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Adelphi University, is also in private practice in New York City. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has recently published papers in Psychoanalytic Dialogues on sexual disgust and contempt from a relational perspective.

Lawrence Josephs
Derner School of Psychology
Adelphi University
Garden City, New York 11530
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