Love In Adulthood Research Articles

White Collars, Dark Histories: The Factors That Lead Women to Commit Corporate Crimes.

The literature on white-collar crimes committed by women is sparse, dealing mostly with their motivations, the incidence of the phenomenon, and differences between the women who commit them and those who commit other types of offenses. This qualitative study maps factors leading women to commit such crimes, with particular focus on their family and personal histories, and on the various roles they played as children and adults, which prepared and "trained" them for future illegal behavior. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 18 women convicted and imprisoned for white-collar crimes. A relationship was found between problematic family background and difficulty in help seeking and a nearly obsessive need for love in adulthood, and between the latter and white-collar crime. Theoretical and practical conclusions are discussed and future directions proposed.

“On Nomadic Shores Inward”: Harry Martinson’s Journey to Late-Life Suicide

The aim of this study was to explore the unconscious dimensions of suicide as conveyed by the Swedish writer Harry Martinson, who took his life in 1978, four years after having received the Nobel Prize in Literature. A psychoanalytically informed “listening” to Martinson comprised a close reading of his writings, reflection on my total response to the material, the application of psychoanalytic hypotheses on severe depression and suicide-nearness, and the study of biographical sources. The dramatic fluctuations of Martinson’s self-regard were noted, as was the juxtaposition of opposites in his poetry: darkness that seeps through observations of the beauty of nature and man or the reverse, a gleam of love that defuses the cruelty of the world. Martinson’s drive to communicate with himself and others by talking and writing, to find auxiliary objects compensating for the traumatic losses of his childhood, and to realize mature love in adulthood was understood as a counterforce to self-destructiveness and threatening narcissistic disintegration. Pressured by negative reactions to the Nobel, which overlay decades of envy and political critique from colleagues, whose support he coveted, Martinson’s aggressivity—reflecting the near soul-murder of his early life—exploded in his suicide.

Book Review: Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood

Book Review: Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood

Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood (Book)

Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood (Book)

Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood

Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood

Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood. NEIL J. SMELSER and ERIK H. ERIKSON, eds

Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood. NEIL J. SMELSER and ERIK H. ERIKSON, eds