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

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

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

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

Apart from marital status, maturing adults will spend some portion of their lives in each chapter of this book.”

EXCERPTS

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. CHAPTER 1: DIVORCE-A WINDOW INTO PERSONALITY
  3. CHAPTER 3: STRUGGLES IN & OUTSIDE OF DIVORCE
  4. CHAPTER 5: SOCIAL LINKS TO PERSONALITY
  5. CHAPTER 6: SELF EXAMINATION & MATURATIONAL CURIOSITIES
  6. CHAPTER 10: ADULT MATURATION & THE P-C-H MODEL OF PERSONALITY
  7. CHAPTER 16: DEFENSE MECHANISMS - ADAPTIVE & MALADAPTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING
  8. CHAPTER 19: ADDITIONAL THEMES & MISCONCEPTIONS IN HUMAN NATURE
  9. CHAPTER 21: SAYING GOODBYE