. Under various psychophysiological conditions, dyscontrol resulted in an outburst of violence toward the loved one. In the years 1973-76,22 % of the 18 million violent crimes recorded in the United States were committed on victims who were well known by their assailants. ' Crimes involving

relationships and to relationship experiences with parents. Implications for theories of romantic love are discussed, as are measurement problems and other issues related to future tests of the attachment perspective. One of the landmarks of contemporary psychology is Bowlby's (1969, 1973, 1980) three

or her experience and training, as the one to be the giver of the news.

Each of us at some point will come to terms with losing a cherished family member or friend. Although we all may react to loss in different ways, it is important to allow oneself to mourn. AARP’s publication On Being Alone tells us that perhaps the greatest myth about grieving is that it has an end. Mourning doesn’t disappear or stop, but it does lessen and become manageable. Even though mourning continues for life, the intensity of grief lessens. A favorite memory, song, place, or holiday may still cause sad feelings, but it should not keep you from living a

I wish to thank the Music Technology Group (MTG) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) for creating such a great environment in which to work on this research. I especially want to thank my supervisors Xavier Serra and Jordi Janer for giving me this opportunity and their support during the whole process. I also want to express my deepest gratitude to the Yamaha Corporation and their Monet research team formed by Keita

cyberspace, carrying love notes, digital cash, and secret corporate documents. Our personal and economic lives rely more and more on our ability to let such ethereal carrier pigeons mediate at a distance what we used to do with face-to-face meetings, paper documents, and a firm handshake. Unfortunately

This qualitative study explores the stressors and readjustment issues experienced by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the perspective of loved ones. A review of the literature on veterans ’ experiences is vast; however there is little literature that discusses the stressors from

on and off from autumn 1987 until summer 1993. One of us [PV] gives very special thanks to his lovely wife Pauline for insisting from the outset on the significance of this enterprise. The Aiken Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; the Computer Science Department

loved one copes with diabetes.

The purpose of this research was to uncover the meaning of caring for an elderly relative. Nine middle-aged and eld-erly people volunteered to take part in audiorecorded interviews to describe their experience of caring for a loved one. The following structural definition emerged from the study