AVERIL MARIE DOYLE is the Director of Clinical Research and Training at Doyle, Dorlac and Associates, Inc. She is a psychotherapist with over 20 years experience as a relationship specialist. A clinical supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, Doyle has contributed to professional journals. She is the author of The Sexually Disturbed: Treating Psychosexual Disorders (Praeger, 1992), and coauthor of A Guide to Sexual Counseling: A Workbook Approach (1977).

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDefining Delusional RelationshipsRole Taking, Gender Based Restrictions, and ExpectationsShaping Gender IdentityStereotypes and Romantic SymbolsAwareness of Cultural InjunctionForcing the Relationship Back into the StereotypeFunctional Basis of StereotypesRealistic Relationship FormationThe Magic IngredientDe Mystifying DelusionDelusionary FamiliesRestructuring Your Own RelationshipRelationship Restructuring for ProfessionalsConclusionSelected BibliographyGlossaryIndex

AVERIL MARIE DOYLE is the Director of Clinical Research and Training at Doyle, Dorlac and Associates, Inc. She is a psychotherapist with over 20 years experience as a relationship specialist. A clinical supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, Doyle has contributed to professional journals. She is the author of The Sexually Disturbed: Treating Psychosexual Disorders (Praeger, 1992), and coauthor of A Guide to Sexual Counseling: A Workbook Approach (1977).

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDefining Delusional RelationshipsRole Taking, Gender Based Restrictions, and ExpectationsShaping Gender IdentityStereotypes and Romantic SymbolsAwareness of Cultural InjunctionForcing the Relationship Back into the StereotypeFunctional Basis of StereotypesRealistic Relationship FormationThe Magic IngredientDe Mystifying DelusionDelusionary FamiliesRestructuring Your Own RelationshipRelationship Restructuring for ProfessionalsConclusionSelected BibliographyGlossaryIndex

AVERIL MARIE DOYLE is the Director of Clinical Research and Training at Doyle, Dorlac and Associates, Inc. She is a psychotherapist with over 20 years experience as a relationship specialist. A clinical supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, Doyle has contributed to professional journals. She is the author of The Sexually Disturbed: Treating Psychosexual Disorders (Praeger, 1992), and coauthor of A Guide to Sexual Counseling: A Workbook Approach (1977).

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDefining Delusional RelationshipsRole Taking, Gender Based Restrictions, and ExpectationsShaping Gender IdentityStereotypes and Romantic SymbolsAwareness of Cultural InjunctionForcing the Relationship Back into the StereotypeFunctional Basis of StereotypesRealistic Relationship FormationThe Magic IngredientDe Mystifying DelusionDelusionary FamiliesRestructuring Your Own RelationshipRelationship Restructuring for ProfessionalsConclusionSelected BibliographyGlossaryIndex