Studies of the characteristics hetero- and homosexual couples relationships are fragmentary. Modern Ukrainian society remains insufficiently aware this issue, which leads to stigmatization a person because his sexual orientation. The purpose our study was determine relationship between emotional creativity quality love in couples. sample consisted 20 heterosexual female (60 women men) aged 18-4...

BACKGROUND Studies in heterosexual HIV serodiscordant couples have provided critical evidence on the role of HIV treatments and undetectable viral load in reducing the risk of HIV transmission. There is very limited data on the risk of transmission from anal sex in homosexual male serodiscordant couples. METHODS/DESIGN The Opposites Attract Study is an observational prospective longitudinal c...

extended abstract 1- introduction considering that the foundation of relationships within a family is the couple's relationship, the present study tries to investigate one of the aspects of marital interactions, namely, “distance”, and assess the consequences and strategies to deal with it based on the standpoint of the study’s subjects. simmel (1903) has introduced the concept of distance in s...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Problematic drinking and executive functioning deficits are two known risk factors for intimate partner aggression (IPA). However, executive functioning is a multifaceted construct, and it is not clear whether deficits in specific components of executive functioning are differentially associated with IPA perpetration generally and within the context of problematic alcohol ...

Though it is clear from meta-analytic research that couple therapy works well, it is less clear how couple therapy works. Efforts to attribute change to the unique ingredients of a particular model have consistently turned up short, leading many researchers to suggest that change is due to common factors that run through different treatment approaches and settings. The purpose of this article i...

In this article, we propose the vulnerability cycle as a construct for understanding and working with couples' impasses. We expand the interactional concept of couples' reciprocal patterns to include behavioral and subjective dimensions, and articulate specific processes that trigger and maintain couples' entanglements. We consider the vulnerability cycle as a nexus of integration in which "vul...

This article describes an innovative model of couples therapy designed to mitigate marital instability. The authors suggest that combining ongoing couples therapy with a separate relationship-focused group for each partner favorably impacts each person's neuropsychophysiological regulation and their ability to participate in a stable intimate marriage. The neurobiology of attachment theory is s...