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Proxemics in Couple Interactions: Rekindling an Old Optic
Author(s) -
Sluzki Carlos E.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/famp.12196
Subject(s) - proxemics , interpersonal communication , bartok , psychology , set (abstract data type) , interpersonal relationship , value (mathematics) , social psychology , aesthetics , communication , art , visual arts , computer science , musical , programming language , machine learning
Utilizing as a lens the interpersonal implications of physical interpersonal distances in social contexts (a set of variables present during the professional discourse during the 1960s and 1970s, to then fade away), this article explores interactive process displayed by the protagonic couple in Bela Bartok's opera “Bluebeard Castle,” an exercise aimed at underlining the value of maintaining proxemics as an explicit level of observation for clinical practice and interpersonal research.