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Clearly, a central psychological stress for those undergoing a divorce arises from a perception of oneself as “unlovable” or wanting as a spouse or parent. At a less conscious level, perhaps a major stressor is what Rice15 has called “narcissistic injury”—the damage inflicted by the loss of the spouse to one’s primitive fantasies of infantile greatness.
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Kressel, K. (1980). Patterns of Coping in Divorce. In: Moos, R.H. (eds) Coping with Life Crises. The Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7021-5_10
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