Arthur Leonoff

When Divorces Fail (eBook, ePUB)

Disillusionment, Destructivity, and High-Conflict Divorce

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the origin and the root causes of high-conflict divorce. Through rich case studies, the author points the way toward remediation and makes specific recommendations for the legal and mental health professions. Counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers, and judges who regularly contend with high-conflict divorce will benefit from drawing from this new approach in their practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538153734
• Artikelnr.: 62400949

Autorenporträt

Arthur Leonoff is a psychologist and psychoanalyst whose clinical practice extends over forty years. His work includes extensive involvement as a family law assessor and expert court witness. He is the coauthor of Guide to Custody and Access Assessments and The Ethical Divorce. A supervising and training analyst with the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Dr. Leonoff has published numerous articles on psychoanalysis. He is a teacher, supervisor, and former board member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and remains an active contributor both nationally and internationally. Dr. Leonoff is a frequent speaker to both legal and mental health communities.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Introduction
1 High Conflict: An Ethical Dilemma
2 The Nature of Destructiveness
3 Divorce: A Crisis of Disillusionment
4 Disillusionment Therapy
5 Love in the Age of Divorce
6 Those Who Cannot Love: Destructive Personalities
7 In Pursuit of an Ethical Divorce: What This Means for High Conflict
8 Confronting the Nihilism of High Conflict
9 Traumatic Conflict Disorder
10 Implications for Legal, Judicial, and Mental Health Services
11 Tabling High Conflict: On the Path to Ethics
Index
About the Author