Why, after a childhood of emotional neglect and abuse, would a man move next door to the very parents who caused him pain? And how can a woman emerge from her mother's control in order to form healthy
Why, after a childhood of emotional neglect and abuse, would a man move next door to the very parents who caused him pain? And how can a woman emerge from her mother's control in order to form healthy
Drawing on cases from his practice as a clinical psychologist, and applying object relations theory, Celani contends that some women, and even a few men, are attracted to abusive partners because of p
Argues that certain parenting styles promote personality disorders that make some people choose partners with complementary conditions that lead to abusive relationships, and proposes social changes t
W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoanalytic theory based on the internalization of human relationships. Fairbairn assumed that the unconscious
