False Love

By Stan Katz and Aimee Liu

The quest for true love appeals to us all — and yet the real thing is painfully elusive. According to Dr. Stan Katz, men and women today don't really know what to look for in a mate, or even how to love once we find one. No one teaches us. What's more, the images of love we absorb from society, the media, and popular culture are superficial and misleading. The result is false love — relationships based on illusions of what we think love should be rather than an appreciation of what it is.
False Love and Other Romantic Illusions is about the mistakes we all make in love, why we make them, and how we can correct them. Using in-depth case histories, Dr. Katz traces the course of false love from early childhood conditioning to adolescent crushes to adult relationships. He shows how our first misconceptions about love lead to mistakes, and how mistakes become patterns.
But the patterns of false love can be broken, and Dr. Katz points the way, with a practical, far-reaching program for achieving and sustaining true love. This timely, intelligent book will alter not only the way we seek intimate relationships, but the way we live them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Sep 6, 1988
• ISBN: 9780547630670

Stan Katz

Dr. Stan J. Katz is a clinical and forensic psychologist with extensive experience in couples counseling. In addition to his Los Angeles practice, he serves as the clinical director of the Maple Center in Beverly Hills, and he is director of training and professional education at the Children's Institute International. He has been a lecturer at the Graduate School of Social Work at UCLA and a member of the Los Angeles Superior Court's expert panel. He is married and has three children.