Leaving home : the art of separating from your difficult family

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Label

Leaving home : the art of separating from your difficult family

Title remainder

the art of separating from your difficult family

Statement of responsibility

David P. Celani

Creator

• Celani, David P

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Adult children of dysfunctional families -- United States
• Electronic books
• Self-help techniques
• Adult children -- United States
• Teenagers and adults
• Young adults -- Family relationships
• Separation (Psychology)

Language

eng

Summary

Why, after a childhood of emotional neglect and abuse, would a man move next door to the very parents who caused him pain? And how can a woman emerge from her mother's control in order to form healthy adult relationships? Giving up family attachments that failed to meet our needs as children, David Celani argues, is the hardest psychological task an adult can undertake. Yet the reality is that many adults re-create the most painful aspects of their early relationships with their parents in new relationships with peers and romantic partners, frustrating themselves and discouraging them from leaving their family of origin. Leaving Home emphasizes the life-saving benefits of separating from destructive parents and offers a viable program for personal emancipation. Celani's program is based on Object-Relations Theory, a branch of psychoanalysis developed by Scottish analyst Ronald Fairbairn. The human personality, Fairbairn argued, is not the result of inherited (and thus immutable) instincts. Rather, the developing child builds internal relational templates that guide his future interactions with others based on the conscious and unconscious memories he internalized from his primary relationship -- the one he experienced with his parents. While a child's attachment to parents who were neglectful or even abusive is not uncommon, there is a way out. Articulate, sensitive, and replete with examples from Celani's twenty-six years of clinical practice, this book outlines the practical steps to leaving home

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

306.874

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult