 When Pets Come Between Partners: How to Keep Love - and Romance - in the Human/Animal Kingdom of Your Home
ISBN: 978-0-87605-626-4
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288 pages
February 2000
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Dedication.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
PART I: The Displacement Story: How Did Fido Get to Be Dear Old Dad?
Chapter 1: The Mechanisms That Drive Our Relationships.
Chapter 2: Let Sleeping Dogs (and Cats) Lie.
Chapter 3: The Siamese Code.
Chapter 4: When You Know the Stand-In.
Chapter 5: Animal Actors.
Chapter 6: The Pet in the Middle.
Chapter 7: So What Does It All Mean?
Chapter 8: How Can You Tell If It's Displacement?
PART II: The Role of Projection: I'm Just Fine: It's Your Problem.
Chapter 9: Getting Rid of the Unwanted.
Chapter 10: The Tales of Two Cats.
Chapter 11: Different Needs, Same Result.
Chapter 12: Pets and the Mating Instinct.
Chapter 13: Projection and Animal Abuse.
Chapter 14: Is It Real, or Is It Projection?
PART III: The Repetition Compulsion: Never-Ending Soap Operas and Old War Stories.
Chapter 15: The Memories Linger On.
Chapter 16: Couples Caught Up in Repetition.
Chapter 17: To Repeat or Not to Repeat.
Chapter 18: A Tangled Tale of Rage.
PART IV: Unburdening Your Pet and Yourself: If the Pet's Not the Problem, What Is the Solution?
Chapter 19: Influences from the Past.
Chapter 20: Jealousy, the Complex Emotion.
Chapter 21: Control Issues: Who's In and Who's Out?
Chapter 22: Custody Cases: Now He's Mine.
Chapter 23: Grief and the Loss of a Pet.
PART V: Why have a Pet?: Now That We Know That the Pet Is Not the Problem ..
Chapter 24: The Healing Power of Pets.
Chapter 25: Pets and Singles.
PART VI: Putting It All Together: Looking Back on What We've Learned and Looking Forward to a Better Relationship.
Chapter 26. A Final Ah-hah.
Glossary.
About the Author.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
PART I: The Displacement Story: How Did Fido Get to Be Dear Old Dad?
Chapter 1: The Mechanisms That Drive Our Relationships.
Chapter 2: Let Sleeping Dogs (and Cats) Lie.
Chapter 3: The Siamese Code.
Chapter 4: When You Know the Stand-In.
Chapter 5: Animal Actors.
Chapter 6: The Pet in the Middle.
Chapter 7: So What Does It All Mean?
Chapter 8: How Can You Tell If It's Displacement?
PART II: The Role of Projection: I'm Just Fine: It's Your Problem.
Chapter 9: Getting Rid of the Unwanted.
Chapter 10: The Tales of Two Cats.
Chapter 11: Different Needs, Same Result.
Chapter 12: Pets and the Mating Instinct.
Chapter 13: Projection and Animal Abuse.
Chapter 14: Is It Real, or Is It Projection?
PART III: The Repetition Compulsion: Never-Ending Soap Operas and Old War Stories.
Chapter 15: The Memories Linger On.
Chapter 16: Couples Caught Up in Repetition.
Chapter 17: To Repeat or Not to Repeat.
Chapter 18: A Tangled Tale of Rage.
PART IV: Unburdening Your Pet and Yourself: If the Pet's Not the Problem, What Is the Solution?
Chapter 19: Influences from the Past.
Chapter 20: Jealousy, the Complex Emotion.
Chapter 21: Control Issues: Who's In and Who's Out?
Chapter 22: Custody Cases: Now He's Mine.
Chapter 23: Grief and the Loss of a Pet.
PART V: Why have a Pet?: Now That We Know That the Pet Is Not the Problem ..
Chapter 24: The Healing Power of Pets.
Chapter 25: Pets and Singles.
PART VI: Putting It All Together: Looking Back on What We've Learned and Looking Forward to a Better Relationship.
Chapter 26. A Final Ah-hah.
Glossary.
About the Author.
