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Silently Seduced

When Parents Make Their Children Partners

By: Kenneth M., PhD Adams

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Paperback | 1 September 2011 | Edition Number 2

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192 Pages

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A leading expert on emotional incest, sex addiction, and childhood trauma offers tools for identifying and healing from covert incestuous relationships that affect adult relationships and lives. When a parent singles out a child for special privileges and attention, that child is often unaware that the relationship is unhealthy - even incestuous. As adults, these children struggle to feel validated, because while they have not been directly abused, they feel a sense of violation and crossed boundaries - usually done in the name of 'love' and 'caring.' the parent's love feels more confining than freeing, more demanding than giving, more intrusive than nurturing. Yet these children suffer from what psychologist Kenneth Adams calls the Silent Seduction - because there is nothing loving or caring about a close parent-child relationship that services the needs of the parent rather than the child. In this revised and updated 20th anniversary edition of his groundbreaking book SILENtLY SEDUCED Dr. Adams explains how 'feeling close,' especially with the opposite-sex parent, is not the source of comfort the image suggests, especially when that child is cheated out of a childhood by being a parent's surrogate partner. He offers a framework to understand this covert incest and its effect on sexuality, intimacy, and relationships, and how victims can begin the process of recovery.

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Addiction & Therapy

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction to the Revised and Updated Edition	p. 1
What Is the Silent Seduction?	p. 5
When a Child Is Betrayed by a Parent's Love	p. 10
The Man of the House	p. 32
Daddy's Little Girl	p. 59
When Sex Becomes a Hiding Place85
The Struggle to Commit	p. 109
Moving Forward	p. 34
Frequently Asked Questions151
Acknowledgments	p. 165
Appendix	p. 166
Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 172
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