Psychology Divorce

For fans of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman, a postdivorce memoir, one woman's story of starting over at 60-in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood. After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life's savings, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage, Meredith Maran - whom Anne Lamott calls "insightful, funny, and human" - leaves her San Francisco freelance writer's life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles.

It’s a fact that the narcissist in your life doesn’t care about you. Dr. Judith Orloff said it best: “Narcissists have an empathy deficit disorder. They’re not capable of empathy as we know it.” As a result, they are more likely to engage in manipulative behaviors than to commit long-term. To the narcissist, you're nothing more than a source of attention, admiration, and praise. They need you to supply these things so that they can continue to support their inflated false sense of self.

With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. McBride guides you through the emotional fallout and challenges of being married to and divorcing a narcissist. The court system assumes that both parties in most high-conflict divorces are at fault, but a narcissist can wreak havoc in the divorce process. Dr. McBride shows how to navigate this kind of divorce and how you and your children can heal afterward.

In divorce, people need to attend to the psychological aspects as they work to adapt to all the other new realities of a post-divorce world. Sam Margulies, an expert in mediation, here suggests that mediation is the best method for accomplishing these tasks. He details what everyone must do to make divorce a less painful process, with a minimum of suffering, especially for the children involved.

THE definitive practical and emotional survival guide to narcissistic separations and divorce, from medical doctor and Amazon bestselling author, Supriya McKenna. In the first book of her 'Narcissists in Divorce' series, Dr Supriya, one of the most well known names in the area of narcissistic relationships, offers up her years of experience working in this field.

Tina Swithin's life was hit by a devastating storm in 2009. Tina had recently heard the words narcissistic personality disorder used to describe her then-husband by a therapist, yet she had no real understanding of how this disorder would turn her life upside down during a custody battle that spanned six years. In less than a year, Tina lost her home, businesses, cars, worldly possessions, and marriage.

From the author of the best-selling Your Baby & Child comes a book full of completely practical, comprehensively researched information and advice on how you can do what is best for your child when you are going through a separation or divorce.

If your last relationship fell apart, if your current relationship isn’t working, if you’re single and looking for love, or if you just want to fall in love with your own life again, Nancy Levin is here to help with a 10-step process to design and build (or rebuild) the best love of your life....

Love Without Growth: Overcoming Codependent Patterns and Escaping Unhealthy Relationships to Become a Better You is your transformative guide to finding self-love, setting healthy boundaries, and fostering meaningful, balanced relationships.

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, or mellow. She can be maternal and playful, bossy and submissive, strong and soft. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of life.

This practical, no-nonsense book gathers essential information and practical guidance from rabbis, attorneys, and mental health professionals for navigating relationship breakdowns, reconciliation considerations, divorce, and life thereafter. Whether you are currently in a marital crisis, are torn between thoughts of reconciliation and divorce, or are already divorced, this sensitive guide clears up many misconceptions, illuminates relevant halachic and civil processes, and arms you with the knowledge needed to make sound decisions at every crossroad.

Based on research from more than 10,000 surveys from children and parents of divorce, Collateral Damage presents parents with an overview of the impact that divorce has on their children and offers ways to better serve their needs at this critical time.

How do you continue living when your worst fear has been realized? Bret and his sons were interrupted by banging on the door. Minutes later he was in handcuffs and the boys were pushed toward their estranged mother. Called the silver bullet effect, their mother had called with false allegations to illegally gain possession of their sons and smuggle them out of the country.

Любовь делает человека уязвимым. Не всегда она бывает счастливой, и порой мы настолько сходим с ума от чувств, что разрыв с партнером запускает разрушительный цикл симптомов зависимости, из которого невероятно сложно выйти. Для людей, борющихся с собственными всепоглощающими эмоциями и неконструктивным поведением, книга Кортни Уоррен станет личным психотерапевтом. В ней объясняется, как можно использовать приемы когнитивно-поведенческой терапии для работы с одержимой привязанностью к бывшему супругу (-е), партнеру или возлюбленному (-ой).

Estas son las técnicas de Hector Herrera que logró sobreponerse ante las adversidades de la vida, sobreviviente de tres intentos de suicidio y haber sanado de una parálisis de su cuerpo que duró casi cinco años de su vida, encontró en lo más profundo del dolor dos caminos: Morir por sus propias manos y terminar con el dolor y sufrimiento que lo tenían muerto en vida; o enfrentar sus miedos sanar su pasado y transformarse en uno de los conferencistas de mayor impacto en la vida de quien lo escucha.

What does life look like after divorce from your high school sweetheart? Uncoupling from your high school sweetheart is more complex than most situations. If you are looking for community, guidance, and for someone who knows exactly what you are going through, author Karinne Piat will guide you through this highly emotional and pivotal transition from your marriage and into the next chapter of your life. As a deeply spiritual and open-hearted healer and mother, she has traveled this path and will show you how to get through it, too.

Positive affirmations are defined as: statements that affirm something to be true, or positive phrases that a person repeats to themselves to describe how or who they want. Affirmations can help in so many different areas of life, it’s truly amazing. Affirmations can also be used to increase your awareness of your positive attributes and reinforce your confidence in yourself.

From women who find their sexuality reawakened by a younger lover, to couples whose marriages survive health crises and grow stronger, to women who finally find a soulmate in their sixties, to stories from seasoned sirens in their seventies, eighties, and even nineties, these portraits cover an enormous range of experience. In them, Sheehy locates the universal patterns that enable us all to recognize and understand our own lives.

Das Hörbuch Narzissmus und der unendliche Schmerz des Partners rüttelt die Zuhörer auf, welche Mechanismen in ihren Beziehungen vorherrschen. Durch Manipulationstechniken oft jahrzehntelang in destruktiven Beziehungen gefangen, stehen die Betroffenen ständig am Abgrund ihren Seins.

What is the real cost of divorce when children are involved? You can calculate the legal and economic costs associated with divorce. However, there is no way to calculate the devastation a divorce has on the children involved. In When Life Breaks, best-selling author Tanzania Davis-Black draws from her personal journey of raising children through divorce and offers the techniques she developed to make a difference in her children’s lives.