The Science of Compassionate Love: Theory, Research, and Applications - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405153946 ISBN 13: 9781405153942

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

The Science of Compassionate Love is an interdisciplinary volume that presents cutting-edge scholarship on the topics of altruism and compassionate love. The book

• Adopts a social science approach to understanding compassionate love
  
• Emphasizes positive features of social interaction
  
• Encourages the appropriate expression of compassionate love both to those in intimate relationships and to strangers
  
• Includes articles by distinguished contributors from the fields of Psychology, Sociology, Communication Studies, Family Studies, Epidemiology, Medicine and Nursing
  
• Is ideal for workshops on compassionate love, Positive Psychology, and creating constructive interactions between health professionals and patients

About this title

About the Author

Beverley Fehr is Professor of Psychology at the University of Winnipeg.

Susan Sprecher is Professor of Sociology with Joint Appointment in Psychology at Illinois State University.

Lynn G. Underwood is Professor of Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College.

From the Back Cover

What is compassionate love? How does it differ from other types of love? Can it be developed or is it innate? The term compassionate love refers to various forms of other-centered cognitions, affect, and behavior: a giving of the self for the good of the other. It is the kind of love that is central to many religious traditions: a self-giving, caring, love that values the other highly and is intended to give full life to the other. The Science of Compassionate Love answers questions about altruism and compassionate love by providing innovative, state-of-the-art research from leadingscholars. Integrating a variety of perspectives, this volume provides insight intothe nature of compassionate love and how we might better understand it, and encourage its appropriate expression in our lives.

Many disciplines, with unique foci and methods, contribute to our understanding of compassionate love. By drawing from various scholars in psychology, sociology, communication, family studies, and medicine, this volume presents and integrates knowledge in a way that is informative for teaching and helpful for research. It also lays out a variety of methods and measures that pave the way forfuture directions in this field.

Many disciplines, with unique foci and methods, contribute to our understanding of compassionate love. By drawing from various scholars in psychology, sociology, communication, family studies, and medicine, this volume presents and integrates knowledge in a way that is informative for teaching and helpful for research. It also lays out a variety of methods and measures that pave the way forfuture directions in this field.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405153946
• ISBN 13: 9781405153942
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Fehr Beverley, Sprecher Susan, Underwood Lynn G.