Holding Pattern: How Communication Prevents Intimacy in Adults | 
| Authors: Karen Buzzard, Karen S. Falling Buzzard
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0870135775
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.2
EAN: 9780870135774
ASIN: 0870135775
Publication Date: August 2001
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Book Description
Holding Pattern examines the chronically single—the midlife adult who has failed to find the intimacy he or she seeks. Karen Buzzard, noted communication scholar, illuminates how human communication styles influence our capacity for intimacy, tracing the roots of adult miscommunications to three critical stages of development that are crucial in shaping our ability to communicate intimately. Buzzard offers a new and strong theoretical paradigm for intimacy, which does not assume, as does the older paradigm, that intimacy is a process that unfolds naturally and automatically. She develops the critical paradigms of affectional, ethical and authentic communication and explains these patterns through interpretative readings of the life history of individuals, providing a framework for understanding midlife intimacy problems. Using psychological theories of life history analysis, she arrives at a novel picture of how our intimacy styles are shaped. Her case studies are! remarkable in demonstrating how the achievement of intimacy involves a crucial shift of direction as we progress from childhood to adulthood.
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Karen Buzzard's "Holding Pattern" September 10, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found this book in "self help" of all places but I guess it's kind of appropriate because it deals with issues often considered too frivolous for "serious psychology." Ms. Buzzard pulls together very diverse strands of psychological theory and case studies of real people struggling with how to find intimacy in mid-life. The result is just plain good psychology -- substantial reference to the wisdom of Freud, Erikson, and many, many other practitioners along with a very compassionate and insightful look at how people struggle, and often fail, to overcome the family stuff that acts a bit like a black hole on the human spirit. I'm sure some will criticize this book as being too traditional in its explanation of some people's inability to form meaningful relationships. But this isn't psycho-babble. Ms. Buzzard acknowledges the powerful pull of the family and the deficiencies of "not good enough" mothers and fathers, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME citing how attitude and basic optimism will always move one more quickly along towards a better life. So if you're looking for a quick fix you won't find it here.
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