The Intimacy Paradox: Personal Authority in the Family System
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Although most people physically leave home by their early 20s, emotional separation from one's family is a more difficult process that can continue for a lifetime. Now available in paper for the first... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0898621062
ISBN13:9780898621068
Release Date:October 1991
Publisher:The Guilford Press
Length:305 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"
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Personal Authority
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book has been most helpful for me in developing a better sense of myself by exploring my place in the family system in which I grew up. In particular it enabled me to claim my own authority in relationship to my parents. Williamson's theory is that it is essential to find a way of eliminating the inter-generational hierarchical boundary that is created in the parent-child relationship in order to fully develop our sense of personal authority. The goal is to find a means to begin to relate with parents as peers once we have attained adulthood. When this is accomplished, paradoxically the intimacy deepens as this new relationship develops.
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