Academic paper on love from UMaine cited by Newsweek
A 2015 academic paper from the University of Maine titled “The Essential Basis of True Love and the Physiologically Healthy Interpersonal Relationship” by Max Hammer, a retired UMaine professor of clinical psychology who died in 2011, and Barry Hammer, who has also been associated with UMaine, was cited in an article about love by Newsweek. The article, titled “Tears as Woman Honestly Lists the Ways She Wants to be Loved: ‘All of This,’” states the academic paper discusses the nature of authentic love, which involves total acceptance, nonjudgmental welcoming of another’s wholeness and one surrendering their own self-seeking behaviors to offer a complete presence and connection with the other. Many media outlets have shared the article from Newsweek, including The Charlotte Observer, Sun Herald, Kansas City Star and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.