If This Is Love, Why Do I Feel So Insecure? - Hardcover

Hindy, Carl G.; Schwarz, J. Conrad; Brodsky, Archie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871133105 ISBN 13: 9780871133106

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1989

Synopsis

A detailed survey provides information about romantic anxiety, obsession, jealousy, explains why people choose partners who make them feel insecure, and discusses parental influences

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

It doesn't have to hurt to be in love, yet for many otherwisde accomplished and confident people, romantic involvement means anxiety, insecurity, and pain. This provocative and authoritative sourcebook, filled with true-life stories and dramatic case histories, will set every reader on a path of greater self-understanding -- and increase the possibilities of finding an enduring love.

From Publishers Weekly:

New Hampshire psychologist Hindy, Schwarz, professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, and Brodsky, coauthor of Love and Addiction , here present the impressive results of a research project on insubstantial relationships. Charts and questionnaires accompany stories of people whose marriages and/or romantic affairs fail, predictably and consistently. Case histories gleaned from the 1700 participants in the study dramatize situations that reveal how even accomplished men and women lose partners through self-defeating behavior. There are examples of anxious lovers exhibiting servility or belligerence, jealousy and possessiveness, etc., emotional flaws rooted, according to the authors, in childhood. Readers suffering from fears of rejection will find numerous parallels to their own experiences in the depictions of ways people drive away those they love. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0871133105
• ISBN 13: 9780871133106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 379