Personality is a highly fictionalized and misunderstood force in human nature. This limits improving as well as leaving disordered relationships.”

Psychological illiteracy is associated with losing hope, needless aggression, disturbed loyalties and questionable leadership.”

Primitive adults passively or aggressively oppose having their elite psychological certainty challenged by others. Primitive adults commonly hijack causal reasoning.”

Oppressing intellectual diversity, in declining relationships or media outlets, has elements of Fascist reasoning.”

Apart from marital status, maturing adults will spend some portion of their lives in each chapter of this book.”

CONTENTS

  1. DIVORCE-A WINDOW INTO PERSONALITY
  2. REDUCING THE GUESSWORK
  3. STRUGGLES IN & OUTSIDE OF DIVORCE
  4. MOTIVES, GOALS & PERSONALITY
  5. SOCIAL LINKS TO PERSONALITY
  6. SELF EXAMINATION & MATURATIONAL CURIOSITIES
  7. KNOWING WHEN YOUR MARRIAGE IS OVER
  8. TYPES OF DIVORCE-TYPES OF PERSONALITY
  9. ASSOCIATED FEATURES OF DIVORCE
  10. ADULT MATURATION & THE P-C-H MODEL OF PERSONALITY
  11. THE PREOCCUPATION WITH "WHY"
  12. PREMARITAL COERCION
  13. PSYCHOLOGICAL RIGIDITY VS PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCIPLINE
  14. PERSONALITY DISORDERS
  15. PSYCHOLOGICAL CERTAINTY
  16. DEFENSE MECHANISMS-ADAPTIVE & MALADAPTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING
  17. DEFENSIVE POSTURING & MATURATIONAL LIMITATIONS
  18. LEARNING FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL EXTREMES
  19. ADDITIONAL THEMES & MISCONCEPTIONS IN HUMAN NATURE
  20. HISTORICAL STRUGGLES & THE AMERICAN FAMILY
  21. SAYING GOODBYE

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