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Marital disharmony and character structure

Marital disharmony and character structure MARTIN SYMONDS the individual. Some individuals see the UCI~ HAS been written on the subject M marital partner as fulfilling their deficit of marriage. When I reviewed needs. Marriage may also be seen as some of this literature, I had the impres- insurance against poverty, loneliness, sion that it would have been wiser for and the need to be protected. The need some of these writers to have followed the to be needed is sometimes a potent force advice of George Bernard Shaw 1. When in marriage. This is particularly evident he was invited by Count Keyserling to in wives of alcoholics. For some women, contribute to a book on marriage, Shaw the search is to be married to a fairy declined and wrote the following: "No prince but, unfortunately, a few find man dare write the truth about mar- themselves married to an ordinary fairy. riage while his wife still lives." For- It is generally accepted that there are tunately, my paper is a scientific one and is the outgrowth of my studies on conscious and unconscious forces that provide the energy to be married. When the oppositional adolescent and adult and how such an individual fares in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Marital disharmony and character structure

Symonds, Martin
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 30 (1): 8 – Mar 1, 1970
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Springer Journals
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1970 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1007/BF01873873
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MARTIN SYMONDS the individual. Some individuals see the UCI~ HAS been written on the subject M marital partner as fulfilling their deficit of marriage. When I reviewed needs. Marriage may also be seen as some of this literature, I had the impres- insurance against poverty, loneliness, sion that it would have been wiser for and the need to be protected. The need some of these writers to have followed the to be needed is sometimes a potent force advice of George Bernard Shaw 1. When in marriage. This is particularly evident he was invited by Count Keyserling to in wives of alcoholics. For some women, contribute to a book on marriage, Shaw the search is to be married to a fairy declined and wrote the following: "No prince but, unfortunately, a few find man dare write the truth about mar- themselves married to an ordinary fairy. riage while his wife still lives." For- It is generally accepted that there are tunately, my paper is a scientific one and is the outgrowth of my studies on conscious and unconscious forces that provide the energy to be married. When the oppositional adolescent and adult and how such an individual fares in

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Published: Mar 1, 1970

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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