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PublisherBroadway Books
ISBN-100767922743
ISBN-139780767922746
eBay Product ID (ePID)48626585
Product Key Features
Book TitleAnatomy of a Secret Life : the Psychology of Living a Lie
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Interpersonal Relations
Publication Year2006
GenrePsychology
AuthorGail Saltz
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.2 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-055559
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"In this gripping book, Gail Saltz analyzes the origins and consequences of hidden lives, articulating both the seductions that secrets hold and the terrible danger they pose as they undermine the capacity for intimacy. This is a brave examination of the balance between safety and loneliness that we all negotiate at one level or another." -Andrew Solomon, author ofThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression"Dr. Saltz is a voice of wisdom and insight in a world of confusion and contradictions. We can all learn from her sagacity." -Tom BrokawPraise forBecoming Real "An enormous contribution." -Gail Sheehy, bestselling author ofThe Silent Passage,Passages,andMiddletown, America, Praise for Becoming Real "An enormous contribution." -Gail Sheehy, bestselling author of The Silent Passage, Passages, and Middletown, America "Dr. Saltz is a voice of wisdom and insight in a world of confusion and contradictions. We can all learn from her sagacity." -Tom Brokaw
Dewey Decimal155.9/2
SynopsisWhat do these people have in common? The traveling businessman who brings prostitutes back to his hotel room The wealthy woman who is arrested for shoplifting The seemingly happily married man who cruises gay clubs They are all-despite differences in degree, gender, and age-living a double life, one of our most deeply ingrained, but poorly understood psychological drives. Now, Dr. Gail Saltz steps into the breach to explore -in detail and based on the latest research-our impulse to create and nurture alter egos. Saltz reveals how assuming a different identity can be healthy and tremendously liberating. For proof, we need look no further than the innumerable people who reinvent themselves by moving to the big city, or the countless pseudonymous bloggers. But, as she also makes clear, leading a secret life comes with potentially serious psychological risks. She shows that, in more extreme cases, leading a secret life can have devastating emotional, social and familial consequences-both for the person leading the secret life, and for those close to him or her. The definitive popular work on how a secret life is formed, lived, justified, and exposed, Saltz'sAnatomyincludes contemporary case studies and historical examples (Lindbergh, T. E. Lawrence, Tchaikovsky, et cetera) of people who have risked it all for a taste of forbidden fruit., Saltz takes readers into the mind of the secret keeper, demonstrating that in more extreme cases, leading a secret life can have devastating emotional, social and familial consequences for the person leading the secret life and those close to him or her.
LC Classification NumberBF637.P74S25 2006
