Theories of Love Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution: Octagonal Cycle and Differential Perspectives

by Oliver C.S. Tzeng

Love presents itself as a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that has been considered one of the most intense and powerful of all human emotions. This book is a comprehensive compilation, analysis, and evaluation of existing views and theories about love development, maintenance, and dissolution.

Part I introduces a proposed psychosemantic paradigm and its two love-specific models as a common theoretical framework for evaluating the major...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275942341
• ISBN13: 9780275942342
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"