Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Going through a divorce is one of the most destructive, heart breaking, and earth shattering processes that an individual can go through in his of her life. It is a method of betrayal and deceit that takes the sanctity of marriage and shatters it into a million pieces. In the process homes are destroyed, children are emotionally damaged, and two people that once loved each other cannot stand one another. More than half of the marriages that take place in The United States today end in divorce. Ending a marriage caused by infidelity, difference if feelings, finances, etc. is very common. However, what is not so common is terminating a marriage due to having a partner with mental illness. The courts of today are being bombarded with high show more conflict divorces that are initiated by those who suffer from border line personality disorder, bipolar disorder, narcissism, and other personality disorders on the DSM IV. Although those in the mental health field are familiar with these types of individuals, the courts are not equipped to handle these people; and the system finds itself being abused and mishandled by them. This book is an excellent guide for those that find themselves in a high conflict divorce with a partner that is suffering from a mental illness. Struggling through a divorce is tough enough, but surviving a divorce with a person that is unstable in frightening. This book will save time and money on how to protect a person in the court room, in mediation, with psychologists, and with family services. It is the divorce bible of today. show less

Perennial favorite for divorcing people to help understand what is driving the hard-to-understand behavior of the other parent.

I read this for a research project and was absorbed.