Splitting up : enmeshment and estrangement in the process of divorce /

Splitting up : enmeshment and estrangement in the process of divorce /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pam, Alvin.
Imprint:	New York : Guilford Press, c1998.
Description:	x, 448 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Divorce -- Psychological aspects. Divorced people -- Psychology. Separation (Psychology) Divorce -- Psychological aspects. Divorced people -- Psychology. Separation (Psychology)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3452479

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Other authors / contributors:	Pearson, Judith.
ISBN:	1572303670 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-437) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Prologue: The Argument of the Book
I. The Couple in Separation
Introduction
1. Why Can't They Be Civilized?
2. Dynamics of the Couple-System
3. The Countersymbiant Partner
4. The Symbiant Mate
5. Leaving
II. Jealousy
Introduction
6. Infidelity vs. Jealousy: Social History of a Dialectic
7. Geometry of the Eternal Triangle
8. The Defilement Taboo: Jealousy's Legacy
III. Catastrophic and Other Severe Reactions to Rejection in Love
Introduction
9. Suicide: In the Shadow of the Object
10. Crimes of Passion
11. Psychosomatic Reactions to Rejection in Love
12. Sexual Dysfunction after Breakup
IV. The Nuclear Family in Fission: Effects on Children
Introduction
13. Children of Divorce in the New American Families
14. How Feasible is "Cooperation where Children Are Concerned"?
15. The Fairy-Tale Divorce for Children
V. Resolution of the Breakup: Letting Go vs. Reconciling
Introduction
16. Love's Labor Lost: Letting Go
17. Reconciliation
VI. Psychological and Social Adjustment
Introduction
18. The Psychotherapy of Marital Breakups
19. The Issue of Guilt