Delusional Relationships: How They Are Formed, How They Falter and Fail / Edition 1

by Averil M. Doyle

Overview

This volume describes how culturally transmitted messages delude people about who they are and what they want in relationships. Expectations of mates, children, parents, friends, and business associates are based on stereotypes and misperceptions, and are therefore delusional. Our current educational system has failed to provide adequate information on relating, communications, and self awareness. As a result, disturbed or failed relationships continue to be a major source of pain and conflict. The results of gender based enculturation are graphically depicted. Both males and females will immediately acknowledge the process as similar to their own. The family system is discussed, clarifying the indelible imprint of early learning on subsequent relationships. Presented from inside the people experiencing delusionary relationships, this book gives the reader an opportunity to understand and identify with the process of attraction, relationship formation, disturbance, and restructuring. Depictions of therapy and treatment are included which furnish guidelines for restructuring delusional relationships with or without professional assistance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275950101
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/28/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	960L (what's this?)

About the Author

AVERIL MARIE DOYLE is the Director of Clinical Research and Training at Doyle, Dorlac and Associates, Inc. She is a psychotherapist with over 20 years experience as a relationship specialist. A clinical supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, Doyle has contributed to professional journals. She is the author of The Sexually Disturbed: Treating Psychosexual Disorders (Praeger, 1992), and coauthor of A Guide to Sexual Counseling: A Workbook Approach (1977).

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Defining Delusional Relationships
Role Taking, Gender Based Restrictions, and Expectations
Shaping Gender Identity
Stereotypes and Romantic Symbols
Awareness of Cultural Injunction
Forcing the Relationship Back into the Stereotype
Functional Basis of Stereotypes
Realistic Relationship Formation
The Magic Ingredient
De Mystifying Delusion
Delusionary Families
Restructuring Your Own Relationship
Relationship Restructuring for Professionals
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

Psychotherapist Doyle presents a collection of case studies or stories that illustrate the nature of delusional relationships. She considers in detail the process whereby these relationships are formed and then falter and fail. She also presents relationship reformation in such a manner that the process can be replicated, with or without professional assistance. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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