Secret Life of Families Truth-Telling, Privacy, and Reconciliation in a Tell-All Society

Name: Secret Life of Families Truth-Telling, Privacy, and Reconciliation in a Tell-All Society
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ISBN: 9780553100945

ISBN-10: 0553100947

ISBN-13: 9780553100945

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Authors: Evan Imber-Black

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When do I have the right to keep a secret? Who has a responsibility to open a secret? How do I know the time is right to maintain a secret or to open it? How do I make it safe for myself and others? What are my obligations to the people I love where secrets are concerned? An HIV-positive man fears losing his job if his health status becomes known. . . . A wife keeps a secret bank account. . . . A husband has an affair. . . . A teen refuses to say where she goes at night. . . . 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…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/2/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Evan Imber-Black, PhD, is internationally known for her pioneering work on rituals, larger systems, and family secrets. She is Professor and Director of Family and Group Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Imber-Black is the editor of the highly acclaimedSecrets in Families and Family Therapy, author ofFamilies and Larger Systems, and coauthor ofRituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships(with Janine Roberts).



Acknowledgments


Preface


Living the Dilemmas


The Sculpture of Family Secrets: How Secrets Shape Relationships


The Secret Society


"We Know What's Best for You to Know": Secrets and Institutional Arrogance


Talk Show Telling Versus Authentic Telling: The Effects of the Popular Media on Secrecy and Openness


Concealing and Revealing: Choices and Changes


Self-Secrets


Making and Breaking Commitments: Couples, Intimacy, and Secrets


Balancing Candor and Caution: Secrets Between Parents and Young Children


Private Investigations: Secrets Between Teens and Parents


It's Never Too Late: Revisiting Long-Held Secrets Among Parents, Grown Children, and Adult Siblings


Afterword


Notes


Index