The concept of intimacy : an introductory overview / Salman Akhtar -- Attachment and intimacy / April Fallon & Rao Gogineni -- Intimacy and its vicissitudes in adolescence / David Pauley -- Friendship, friendliness, and intimacy / Gurmeet S. Kanwal -- Intimacy and otherness in multicultural/multiracial/interfaith couples / Bari Smelson-Kanwal -- Forty shades of gray in intimacy for iranians / Siamak Movahedi -- Privacy and intimacy as two mediators of relatedness / Suzanne Benser -- Technology, intimacy, and the simulation of intimacy / Todd Essig, Danielle Magaldi, and Leora Trub -- Psychoanalytic intimacy / Christie Platt -- The many shapes of intimacy / Lori Bohm -- References -- Index.