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How to Break Your Addiction to a Person
by Howard Halpern
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Bantam (December 30 2003)
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Chapter 1: Prisoner of Love?
Maybe the Surgeon General hasn't determined it yet, but staying in a bad relationship may be dangerous to your health. It can shake your self-esteem and destroy your self-confidence as surely as smoking can damage your lungs.

Chapter 1: Prisoner of Love? Part 2
Often there is a lot of love and commitment in an addictive relationship, but to be genuinely loving and committed one must freely choose another person, and one of the hallmarks of an addiction is that it is a compulsive drive which, by definition, means



Book Description

Are you in love — or addicted? How to know when to call it quits...and how to find the courage to call it quits.

Are you unable to leave a love relationship even though it gives you more pain than joy? Your judgment and self-respect tell you to end it, but still, to your dismay, you hang on. You are addicted — to a person. Now there is an insightful, step-by-step guide to breaking that addiction — and surviving the split. Drawing on dozens of provocative case histories, psychotherapist Howard Helpern explains to you:

  • Why you can get addicted to a person.

  • Why and how you may try to deceive yourself. ("He really loves me, he just doesn't know how to show it.")

  • How you can recognize the symptoms of a bad relationship.

  • How to deal with the power moves and guilt trips your partner uses to hold you.

  • Why strong feelings of jealousy do not mean you are "in love."

  • How to get through the agonizing breakup period — without going back.

  • How not to get caught in such a painful relationship again.

About the Author

Howard M. Halpern, Ph.D.

Dr. Halpern received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Columbia University in 1954. He taught at Columbia and other colleges and has been a consultant, clinical psychologist, and psychotherapist at several New York colleges and clinics. He was the codirector of the New York Student Consultation Center and is a past president of the American Academy of Psychotherapists.

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