Intimacies : A New World of Relational Life


Daniel Shaw
Edited by Alan Frank, Patricia Clough, Steven Seidman
(2013 by Routledge)

ShawIntimaciesThe chapter I have contributed is entitled Intimacy and Ambivalence. By recognizing the ubiquity of ambivalence about intimacy and understanding the sources, functions and impacts of this ambivalence, therapeutic clinical work can help individuals and couples illuminate the choices, conscious and unconscious, that we make in seeking to fulfill intimacy needs.

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DShawDaniel Shaw, LCSW is a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, and in Nyack, New York. He is a training analyst, teacher and supervisor of analytic candidates at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City