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Title: PSYCHOLOGY OF ROMANTIC LOVE, THE by Nathaniel Branden ISBN: 0-553-27555-0 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: romantic love
Comment: I have always wondered if I really even understood what real love is. This book explained it all to me. It's history, how my self-esteem effects it, why selfishness is a normal and valid part of love, what characteristics help love to succeed, and what missing links cause it to remain unfulfilling. I'm going to make my children read this before they get married. Everyone needs to know this stuff.
Rating: 3
Summary: Challenging but not comprehensive
Comment: There is loneliness in books which validate some feelings but don't encompass a consistent philosophy of personality, or provide a frame on which to hang all the delicious details of people: they depopulate the world of variety, filling in one small portion, dismissing the rest. Perhaps self-help books particularly fall prey to this, but it would be unfair to single them out, although almost universally they are "small-souled." One might wonder what philosophically valid books have ever been written on the concept of romantic love. Nathaniel Branden tries nobly and has many valuable criticisms of immature love, misconceived love, and of the critics of love, thus praising love's potential when fully realized. His understanding of exclusivity (which gains only a provisional acceptance), jealousy (which he views somewhat as inevitable but dangerous), children (which may stand in the way of love) and secularism and selfishness (both implied by love) are radical and could have been written by a hippie Ayn Rand. Unfortunately, Branden's attacks on the critics of love finally fails to find any other place for the uncommitted but as resentful and envious, or somehow sick (dependent, living out the lives of parents). How he has failed to step back and view things from a broader perspective, even briefly, is clearly shown in a simplistic history of love in chapter 1, that characterizes whole eras in brief unattributed sound-bites. Alas, if he applied his own proverb, "Take what you want and pay for it," universally, the "universal compensation that prevails in all things" (Hume), he might realize that this romantic love itself, having the high price it does, is, without sickness or resentment, only one choice.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Highly Recommended book for the thinking individual.
Comment: This book made a deep impression on me and as a result I started a web site matchmaking forum based on Branden's concepts outlined in his wonderful book. The concepts are lucidly explained and derived from basic principles.
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Title: The Psychology of Self-Esteem : A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology by Nathaniel Branden ISBN: 0787945269 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Romantic Love Question and Answer Book by Nathaniel Branden, Devers E. Branden, E. Devers Branden ISBN: 055323059X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: February, 1987 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden ISBN: 0553374397 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Honoring the Self: Self-Esteem and Personal Tranformation by Nathaniel Branden ISBN: 0553268147 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: How to Raise Your Self-Esteem : The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence by Nathaniel Branden ISBN: 0553266462 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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