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

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

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

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

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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