Splitting Up Enmeshment and Estrangement in the Process of Divorce,9781572303676

Splitting Up Enmeshment and Estrangement in the Process of Divorce

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ISBN13: 9781572303676
ISBN10: 1572303670
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-08-06
Publisher(s): The Guilford Press
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Summary

This thoroughly researched volume examines the emotional process of divorce, from the characterological struggle that leads to the breakup through the difficult adjustments that come after the marriage is over. Illustrated throughout with evocative case examples, the book explores why marriages fail, the feelings and reactions of both the rejecting and rejected partners, the psychodynamics of jealousy, the possibility of reconciliation, and the impact of divorce on children. Psychological and cultural perspectives are combined to provide valuable conceptual and clinical insights for professionals working with individuals and families in crisis.

Author Biography

Alvin Pam, PhD, is Principal Psychologist at Bronx Psychiatric Center and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also in private practice in Bronx, New York.

Judith Pearson, PhD, is an associate faculty member of the Masterson Institute in New York City. She has worked as a supervising psychologist at Bronx Psychiatric Center and was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is in private practice in New York City.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1(10)
I THE COUPLE IN SEPARATION
Introduction 11(114)
Why Can't They Be Civilized?
15(20)
Dynamics of the Couple System
35(24)
The Countersymbiant Partner
59(20)
The Symbiant Mate
79(21)
Leaving
100(25)
II JEALOUSY
Introduction 125(66)
Infidelity versus Jealousy: Social History of a Dialectic
129(19)
The Geometry of the Eternal Triangle
148(19)
When Marriage Ends in a Love Triangle: The Defilement Taboo
167(24)
III CATASTROPHIC AND OTHER SEVERE REACTIONS TO REJECTION IN LOVE
Introduction 191(66)
Suicide: In the Shadow of the Object
195(12)
Crimes of Passion
207(16)
Psychosomatic Reactions to Rejection in Love
223(13)
Sexual Dysfunction after Breakup
236(21)
IV THE NUCLEAR FAMILY IN FISSION: EFFECTS ON CHILDREN
Introduction 257(68)
Children of Divorce in the New American Families
261(22)
How Feasible Is ``Cooperation Where Children Are Concerned''?
283(22)
The Fairy Tale Divorce for Children
305(20)
V RESOLUTION OF THE BREAKUP: LETTING GO VERSUS RECONCILING
Introduction 325(40)
Love's Labor Lost: Letting Go
327(21)
Reconciliation
348(17)
VI PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT
Introduction 365(52)
The Psychotherapy of Marital Breakups
369(25)
The Issue of Guilt
394(23)
References 417(22)
Index 439

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