{"product_id":"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-t-9780553375527","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 t","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this important work, Evan Imber-Black explores the nature of secrets, helping us understand: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The distinction between healthy privacy and toxic secrecy\u003cbr\u003e What to tell--and not to tell--young children\u003cbr\u003e How to safely confront a family \"zone of silence\"\u003cbr\u003e Why adolescents need to have some secrets--and where to draw the line\u003cbr\u003e The effect of \"official\" secrets, like sealed adoption records and medical testing\u003cbr\u003e What to consider before revealing an important secret\u003cbr\u003e And much more \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFilled with moving first-person stories, \u003cb\u003eThe Secret Life of Families\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvan Imber-Black, Ph.D., is Director of Program Development at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City and Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is also immediate past-president of the American Family Therapy Academy. Her previous books include \u003cb\u003eRituals for Our Times\u003c\/b\u003e (with Janine Roberts, Ed.D.) and the professional book \u003cb\u003eSecrets in Families and Family Therapy\u003c\/b\u003e, which she edited. The mother of two grown children, she lives with her husband in Westchester, where she practices family therapy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50325316862226,"sku":"9780553375527","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d034b7d-3066-4dac-b2d5-7c74ad6b93ea.jpg?v=1727683844","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/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-t-9780553375527","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}