How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When--and Why--Love Doesn't Work Author: Howard Halpern, PhD Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition (December 30, 2003) Paperback: 272 pages ISBN-10: 0553382497 ISBN-13: 978-0553382495

About the Book
Are you unable to leave a love relationship even though it gives you more pain than joy?  Your judgment and self-respect tell you to end it, but still, to your dismay, you hang on.  It could be that you are addicted to a person. This book is astep-by-step guide to breaking that addiction and surviving the split.  

This book helps us look at irrational fears and reasoning for what it is, irrational. The author strongly encourages the reader to examine their relationship with their parents. This book also encourages you to confront fears and reality. If you're suffering, this is a good book to help you get it together.

About the author
Howard Halpern wrote two books about love relationships in general and unhealthy ones in particular. “How to Break Your Addiction to a Person” (1982) examined the reasons people stay in painful relationships and offered advice for weaning themselves from them. “Finally Getting It Right: From Addictive Love to the Real Thing” (1994) offered strategies for avoiding making the same mistakes in choosing a partner that previously led to misery.

Halpern was born in the Bronx on March 5, 1929, the youngest of six children of Romanian immigrants. His father, Samuel, owned a small furniture factory and moved the family to Forest Hills, Queens, in time for young Howard to go to high school there. He died in 2012 at the age of 82.

Halpern graduated from Syracuse University and earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Columbia.

"From the beginning,” Dr. Halpern wrote in an autobiographical statement in 2002, “my overriding interest and concern was in helping people who were in emotional pain because of problems in their most important relationships.”