Explains the psychological and developmental factors in the difference between women and men and their effects on adult relationships, discussing intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work, parenting, and other crucial issues of being together

INTIMATE STRANGER: What Goes Wrong in Relationships Today-and Why

Rubin, Lillian B.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HarperCollins, Publishers

Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self

Harper&Row

Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together

Self-Help

Relationships

Harpercollins

Based on years of research, including interviews with three hundred men and women, a psychotherapist examines the social and personal role of friendship

Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives

The author of Worlds of Pain draws on nearly four hundred interviews with adults and children to examine the commonalities among working-class people despite economic forces that create seemingly unbridgeable ethnic divisions. 35,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.

Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity

Parenting & Relationships

Intimate Strangers is a book for every man and woman who has ever yearned for an intimate relationship and wondered why it seemed so elusive. Drawing on years of research, writing, and counseling about marriage and the family, interviews with more than two hundred couples, and her own experiences, Lillian Rubin explains not just how the differences between women and men arise but how they affect such critical issues as intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work, and parenting. Candid, compassionate, and insightful, Rubin's lucid examination should aid each of us in our struggle for greater personal and emotional satisfaction.

An exploration of the role of friendship in men's and women's lives.

Harper-perennial

An up-close and intimate look inside the lives, hearts, and minds of America's working-class families.

Families on the Fault Line

Mental Health

Uses the lives of real people to discuss what those between age thirteen and forty-eight feel about their sexuality and how those attitudes have changed over the years

Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Psychology & Counseling

How is it that some people can transcend even the most harsh and painful past? For the answer, Dr. Rubin turns to the life stories of adults who were scarred by the worst kinds of family and social pathologies as children yet found the strength to endure and live rich and satisfying adult lives. Through their life stories, she provides new insight into human development and shows readers how they too can overcome their own personal trauma. 
 A vivid reminder that people don't have to be live as hostages to their past, The Transcendent Child is a truly timely and important book for the thousands of Americans who are fed up with living their lives as victims.

The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph Over the Past

Harper Paperbacks

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Books by Rubin, Lillian B.

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INTIMATE STRANGER: What Goes Wrong in Relationships Today-and Why

Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self

Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together

Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives

Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity

Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together

Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives

Families on the Fault Line

Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph Over the Past