The Secret Life of Families: Making Decisions about Secrets: When Keeping Secrets Can Harm You, When Keeping Secrets Can Heal You--And How to Know Paperback - 1999
by Evan Imber-Black
One of the nation's most renowned family therapists reveals the often surprising consequences of family secrets and offers expert guidance for truth-telling that helps, not hurts.
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TOUCH A FAMILY DEEPLY and you will likely find a secret.
From the rear cover
Secrets come in all shapes and sizes. And for families as well as individuals, they are built on a complex web of shifting motives and emotions. But today, when personal revelations are posted on the Internet or sensationalized on afternoon talk shows, we risk losing touch with how important secrets are -- how they are used and abused, their power to harm and heal.
In this important work, Evan Imber-Black explores the nature of secrets, helping us understand:
-- The distinction between healthy privacy and toxic secrecy
-- What to tell -- and not to tell -- young children
-- How to safely confront a family "zone of silence"
-- Why adolescents need to have some secrets -- and where to draw the line
-- The effect of "official" secrets, like sealed adoption records and medical testing
-- What to consider before revealing an important secret
-- And much more
Filled with moving first-person stories, The Secret Life of Families provides perspective on some of today's most sensitive personal and social issues. Giving voice to our deepest fears and to our power to overcome them, this is a book that will be talked about for years to come.
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- Title The Secret Life of Families: Making Decisions about Secrets: When Keeping Secrets Can Harm You, When Keeping Secrets Can Heal You--And How to Know
- Author Evan Imber-Black
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dell, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-09-01
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780553375527 / 0553375520
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.72 x 5.58 x 0.85 in (22.15 x 14.17 x 2.16 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97035287
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.891
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- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 126
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