Josephs (Adelphi Univ.) imagines his book, The Dynamics of Infidelity, as a bridge between researchers and clinicians. The result is an organized, accessible, carefully researched textbook on infidelity. Josephs’s relationship science approach smoothly blends social, personality, and evolutionary psychology with psychodynamics, marital communications skills, and mindfulness approaches to treatment (among others). The tone avoids being judgmental without compromising the quality of the arguments and evidence.
This book is detailed and sophisticated in discussing the psychological foundations of cheating. Individual, couple, and family therapists will find it helpful when looking for literature addressing infidelity and especially the relational dynamics involved in infidelity.
Lawrence Josephs, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies of Adelphi University. Dr. Josephs has been an editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, book reviewer for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and a manuscript reviewer for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. He has published articles in Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, Self and Identity, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Psychodynamic Psychiatry. In 2015 The New York Times published an op-ed piece written by Dr. Josephs called "When the Best Sex is Extra-Marital." Dr. Josephs has a private practice of individual and couples psychotherapy in New York City.