Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Career Focus

Briefing

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Rx for Marriage

Marriage is an unconscious attempt to recreate and repair childhood traumas.
So it’s no surprise that marriage frequently ends in a traumatic divorce.
Considering the prevalence and pain of divorce, I would suggest that people
should be married by a lawyer and divorced by a clergyman. Let’s practice
prevention and merciful intervention.

Competing interests:
None declared

Competing interests: No competing interests

13 January 2009
Hugh Mann
Physician
Eagle Rock, MO 65641 USA