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

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

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

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

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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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