Synopsis
Partners entrance one another into enmeshed bonding through the euphoric idealization of "perfect love." This idealization is found to serve as a hypnotic allure which, by its sheer luster, blinds partners to its perilous powers of manifest magnetism. The stages of hypnotic entrancement are delineated, starting with fantasy fixation of perfect love and its eventual demise. The essential premise describes the addictive enmeshment as the result of "consciously" irresistible hypnotic pulls from entrancement, which involves a coming together or fusion of idealized images superimposed upon physical attributes of one's partner. Partners merge their ideal images of love and beauty with the size, shape, contour, etc. of their mates, creating the entrancing, whirlwind addiction. Numerous case examples are utilized in demonstrating a four-stage parallel between addictive bonds and hypnosis. Reawakening is described as coming of (en)trance(ment). Genuine awakening is the emergence of innate, artistic motifs inherent in partners, which can bring empowerment and recovery. This book is recommended for both academic and professional readers.
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About the Author
Don J. Feeney, Jr. is the founder and director of Consulting Psychological Services, P.C., in Downers Grove and Chicago, Illinois, where he functions as a licensed clinical psychologist. He earned his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Loyola University of Chicago in 1979 and has been fascinated with the study of life purpose dynamics and motifs for more than twenty-nine years. He completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago and attended the Adler Institute of Chicago. He is a certified alcohol and drug counselor and has published numerous articles on addictions. He has been on many national talk shows and recently completed Motifs: The Transformative Creation of Self and is currently working on new material related to the Psychology of Terrorism. He is a certified neurolinguistic programmer, using Ericksonian hypnosis in his therapy and publications. He has drawn extensively from many theoretical and clinical fields in formulating his particular brand of therapeutic intervention involving healing and sensory motifs.
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