A celebration and investigation of a profound human experience that is as elusive as it is powerful.

1. Only Connect 2. Translating Intimacy 3. The Kiss Part 1: Intimacy Through Four Lenses 4. It Takes Two 5. A Conspiracy 6. Unruly Emotion 7. A Complicated Kindness Part 2: Barriers to Intimacy 8. Insecurities 9. Solipsism and Imaginative Failures 10. Wishful Thinking 11. Cultures and Contexts Part 3: Finding Intimacy 12. Learning from Literature 13. In Good Faith. Index

Ziyad Marar has a BSc and MA in psychology and philosophy, and is Global Publishing Director of the academic and professional publisher, SAGE. His previous books include The Happiness Paradox and Deception.