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Special Praise for Irrelationship

“Irrelationship crosses the frontier of self-help into a new area the authors call ‘self-other help.’ The DREAM Sequence used for recovery from irrelationship is designed for couples to work together and help them reconnect with the wonderful chemistry and emotional connections that initially drew them to one another.”

Diana Kirschner, PhD, best-selling author of Love in 90 Days

“A well-written, informative, and entertaining volume that tells us much about ourselves in our loving and not-so-loving relationships with others. A book to read for those brave enough to look inside themselves for understanding.”

Tom Gullotta, editor of Family Influences on Childhood Behavior and Development, author, and CEO of the Child and Family Agency

“Written for individuals and couples who find their relationships to be unsatisfying, Borg, Brenner, and Berry do a masterful job of combining psychoanalytic theory with cutting edge research from neurobiology, all in completely non-jargon, understandable language. The authors identify factors that contribute to a sense of ‘stuckness’ in relationships and use clinical vignettes to illustrate the difficulties and demonstrate ways to ameliorate the problems. Helpful for clinicians as well as laypeople.”

Susan Kolod, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, and editor of Psychology Today’s “Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action”

“Irrelationship is a new label for the old idea of dysfunctional relationships in dating, marital, or partnering couples. With many case studies, the authors describe forms of dysfunction stemming from a psychoanalytic perspective of carrying forward into adulthood the dysfunctional patterns that were formed unconsciously in childhood.

The road to recovery is stated in user-friendly, self-help terms that empower each person in the relationship to make changes and develop healthier ways of thinking and behaving through a mutuality of experience that permits the expression of love in all its wonderful, vital, unpredictable, and even downside forms, as the way to find continued growth and collaboration for both members of the couple.”

Martin Bloom, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut, and editor of Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion

“Irrelationship is an invaluable user’s guide to the care and maintenance of adult relationships. It shines a light on challenges we often choose to ignore—the adoption of roles that limit us, the replaying of damaging patterns formed by our earliest experiences—and offers insightful and concrete advice on how to do the work necessary to build stronger and happier partnerships.”

Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel and The Nobodies Album