Contemporary Perspectives on Relational Wellness

This book proposes new perspectives on relational wellness and the contemporary family-combining a psychoanalytic overview with scientific research about the burgeoning popularity of divorce, the increase in "stepfamilies," and the use of social networks as well as other technologies. In this day and age, psychoanalysis has become increasingly interested in hyper-modern scenarios; for example, social networks and apps provide matching algorithms, which allow users to connect with people of similar interests. These networks have become one of the places where dissatisfied partners seek "more satisfactory situations." In the United Kingdom, cohabitation lasts for up to two years, on average, and 40% of marriages end in divorce. In the United States, the percentage rises: it has now reached 50%. Today the value of temporariness, in which everything is fragmented, is exalted. On the other hand, is it wrong to deny the natural ebb and flow of human feeling?

Floriana Irtelli is a Psychoanalyst, IARPP member, and Health Psychology Lecturer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. She has published in international journals in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Fabio Gabrielli is a 2015 Nobel Prize Nominee for Medicine at University LUM JEAN Monnet, Milan, Italy. He has participated in numerous conferences, seminars, and congresses and has authored many books and journal papers.

1. Society, Family, Subjects.- 2. Love, Today.- 3. Marriage and Parental Bond?.- 4. Divorce and Betrayal.- 5. Stepfamily.- 6. Relational Well-being.