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Relationships

Ten More Ways to Lose Your Lover or Blocks to a Relationship

Pages 61-69
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Analyzes ten behavior patterns, e.g. failing to ask for what one wants, failure to share control, failure to share work, which have been found to consistently interfere with the effective development and with the survival of intimate relationships. The specific destructive patterns are considered in terms of script injunctions and early decisions, as well as in terms of the impact of these in augmenting relationship problems. Describes processes for the confrontation of the destructive behavior patterns, and their replacement with autonomous behavior patterns to enhance intimacy.

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Theodore B. Novey

Theodore B. Novey, PhD, CSFTM, was a trustee of ITAA and member of the executive committee, and is chairman of the International Relations Committee. He is a psychotherapist, trainer and management consultant internationally, particularly in Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Glenview, Illinois.

Pat Novey

Pat Novey, MS, CM, past president of the Chicago Transactional Analysis Institute, is in private practice in Glenview, Illinois.