Mark B. Borg & Grant H Brenner 
IRRELATIONSHIP: How we use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy [EPUB ebook] 

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Using this Book

Part One: Irrelationship on Stage—Your Song-and-Dance Routine

Chapter 1: Anatomy of Irrelationship

Chapter 2: Performer or Audience?

Chapter 3: Short-Circuiting the Possibility of Love

Chapter 4: The Threat of Intimacy

Part Two: Getting to Know You—Spotlight on the Performer and the Audience

Chapter 5: The Performer—Intuition Backfiring into Isolation

Chapter 6: The Audience—Resisting Care

Part Three: Backstage—The Inner Workings of Irrelationship

Chapter 7: Patterns and Pitfalls

Chapter 8: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Adulthood

Part Four: Raise the Curtain on Recovery—From

Irrelationship to Real Relationship

Chapter 9: Brand New World

Chapter 10: The DREAM Sequence—Step-by-Step Recovery

Chapter 11: Living the DREAM

Chapter 12: Zoe and Victor Break Free

Part Five: Encore—Cracked Open for Love

Chapter 13: Cracked Open at Last

An Invitation from the Authors

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

About the Authors

Mark B. Borg: Mark B. Borg, Jr., Ph.D. is a community psychologist and psychoanalyst, founding partner of The Community Consulting Group, and a supervisor of psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute.
Grant H Brenner: Grant H. Brenner, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice, specializing in treating mood and anxiety disorders and the complex problems that may arise in adulthood from childhood trauma and loss.
Daniel Berry: Daniel Berry, RN, MHA has practiced as a Registered Nurse in New York City since 1987. He is currently the Assistant Director of Nursing for Risk Management at a public hospital serving homeless and undocumented victims of street violence, drug addiction, and severe traumatic injuries.