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Intimacy and marital depression: Interactional partners

International Journal of Family Therapy, 1983
The relationship between marital depression and lack of intimacy in a caring relationship is presented and supported with evidence from teh relevant literature. A case example is given to illustrate the therapeutic implications of this viewpoint.
Edgar Jessee, Luciano L'Abate
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Construction and Validation of a Marital Intimacy Questionnaire

Family Relations, 1995
The degree of intimacy experienced in one's marital relationship significantly contributes to a person's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. This contribution is attested by the growing number of research findings linking the failure to develop an intimate relationship with a partner to a variety of problems, including loneliness ...
Stephan Van den Broucke, Hans Vertommen, Walter Vandereycken   +2 more
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Marital intimacy, psychosomatic symptoms, and cognitive therapy

Psychosomatics, 1980
Abstract The marriages of patients with psychosomatic illness involving chronic physical symptoms of obscure etiology–are often superficially adjusted, but have a significant lack of interpersonal intimacy. Furthermore, the physical symptoms of one partner may be used as an indirect attempt to overcome a frustrating lack of communication.
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The influence of therapeutic self-disclosure on perceived marital intimacy

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1994
This study examines the effect of therapeutic changes in a couple's self-disclosure behavior and its impact on their perception of their marital intimacy. Twenty couples participated in 10 weekly sessions of structured self-disclosure. The Self-Disclosure Coding System was used to rate audiotapes of the second and ninth sessions.
E M, Waring, B, Schaefer, R, Fry
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Marital Conflict over Intimacy

2018
It is in marriage and sexual love that most Americans expect to find their major attachment to an adult. The very word "relationship" has come to mean a sexual, couple relationship. But expectations for marital intimacy are often frustrated, in part because of our system of gender roles.
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The quality and quantity of marital intimacy in the marriages of psychiatric patients

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1984
Lack of intimacy in the marital relationship is hypothesized to be associated with the presence of symptoms of nonpsychotic emotional illness in one or both spouses. The development of the Waring Intimacy Questionnaire (WIQ) has furthered the understanding of the relationship between intimacy and illness.
D, Patton, E M, Waring
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Intimacy and Conjoint Marital Therapy

1982
The seeking and valuing of intimacy is a modern marital expectation and benefit that is highly correlated with desires for marital happiness. The social and cultural ferment of the last fifty years has irreversibly altered the old reasons for initiating and perpetuating marriage (Grunebaum & Christ, 1976).
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Marital Conflict and Marital Intimacy: An Integrative Psychodynamic‐Behavioral‐Systemic Model

Family Process, 1979
A conceptual model of some of the intrapsychic and interpersonal forces that stimulate and maintain repetitive, nonproductive marital conflict behavior is presented. In this model, concepts derived from psychoanalytic and social‐learning theory are integrated within a family systems framework.
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Marital Intimacy and Spiritual Weil-Being

Journal of Pastoral Care, 1998
Notes that although marital intimacy has become a recent focus of empirical studies, its relationship to spirituality has remained virtually unexplored. Reports some preliminary findings of an empirical study examining the relationship between marital intimacy and spiritual well-being in a sample of ninety-three married men and women.
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Marital Intimacy

Journal of Couples Therapy, 1991
Karen Keyser Kersten, David P. Himle
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