Intimate Terrorism - The Crisis of Love in an Age of Disillusion (Paperback, Revised)

The Crisis of Love in an Age of Disillusion

"A witty, ironic, poetic, deeply intelligent and iconoclastic book about love . . . serious, wise and ultimately hopeful."--Carol Gilligan

We live in an age when love and power have become virtually interchangeable. Intimate Terrorism is a profound and beautifully written exploration of this condition that draws from psychology, literature, popular culture, current events, and the author's own therapeutic practice to examine the contemporary crisis of intimacy--and suggest what we all might do about it. In doing so it offers one of the most probing readings of the American psyche in years.

"This is a serious essay, a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation on what has gone wrong with love and marriage in the lives of individuals and in society as a whole."--Francine Klagsbrun, Boston Globe

"This is an exciting, troubling and lucid exploration of the ties that bind, even when they shouldn't."--Phillip Lopate

"Extraordinarily well written popular psychology. . . . A probing account of contemporary pain."--Kirkus Reviews

Michael Vincent Miller, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He lectures widely on his ideas about contemporary love and intimacy.