Cutoffs: How Family Members Who Sever Relationships Can Reconnect
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0882821385 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Library Journal The subtitle is deceiving. . Two chapters on reconstruction are sorely inadequate and do not offer a strategy for resolving this aspect of family dysfunction.?A. Although the first-time author, a psychotherapist, presents valid insight into the reasons one might choose to end a family relationship?and she includes a valuable perspective on "repressed memory" syndrome?she only identifies the problem. The book is composed of poorly edited and poorly organized case studies that demonstrate ways one can "cut off" from one's family of origin. Netzer discusses how family relatio
Drawing on her personal and professional experience, Netzer constructs a comprehensive framework for understanding the behavior which results in final separation and shows how symptoms can be recognized and hopefully prevented or repaired once they have occurred.. In Cutoffs, esteemed counselor Carol Netzer speaks to families who experience the intense pain of cutoffs — a decisive leave-taking, a sudden end to a family relation. Everyone knows someone who won't go home again
take a pass Estrangements are common and a compelling problem and few books or articles seriously address the issue. I bought Netzer's book hoping to find a realistic road map for both healing estrangements--and living with them when there is no alternative. She seems so hell bent on getting people back in contact at all costs that she fails to recognize that there are sometimes legitimate reasons not to close those gaps. She doesn't seem to realize--or perhaps thinks it impossible--that sometimes estrangement IS the well-adjusted, healthy c. Subtitle Misleading Elaine M. Warner I found that this book was mainly a long account of the author's observations of people who "cut off" from family members for reasons associated with divorce or adoption. Therefore it was not particularly helpful to me in my situation.There was little-to-NO help or history about real reconciliation or mutual forgiveness.However it was helpful to read of the mind-set of some of the young women who did the cutting-off; a. their need to feel powerful or "in control" of their environment. b. their self-absorbed attitude which denies . "Out-dated, misleading" according to Brian Wilson. Over 50 percent of the book is devoted to adoptees who cut themselves off from their families all because, based on Netzer's (insert negative adjective here) premise, adopted children automatically hate their birth and adoptive mothers. I bought the book because I was under the impression it would examine lots of different types of cut-offs; only Out-dated, misleading Over 50 percent of the book is devoted to adoptees who cut themselves off from their families all because, based on Netzer's (insert negative adjective here) premise, adopted children automatically hate their birth and adoptive mothers. I bought the book because I was under the impression it would examine lots of different types of cut-offs; only 3-Out-dated, misleading Brian Wilson Over 50 percent of the book is devoted to adoptees who cut themselves off from their families all because, based on Netzer's (insert negative adjective here) premise, adopted children automatically hate their birth and adoptive mothers. I bought the book because I was under the impression it would examine lots of different types of cut-offs; only 3-4 varieties are fully explained. And, as another review stated, not many solutions are offered.. varieties are fully explained. And, as another review stated, not many solutions are offered.. -Out-dated, misleading Brian Wilson Over 50 percent of the book is devoted to adoptees who cut themselves off from their families all because, based on Netzer's (insert negative adjective here) premise, adopted children automatically hate their birth and adoptive mothers. I bought the book because I was under the impression it would examine lots of different types of cut-offs; only 3-4 varieties are fully explained. And, as another review stated, not many solutions are offered.. varieties are fully explained. And, as another review stated, not many solutions are offered.