The Intimacy Paradox: Personal Authority in the Family System

by Donald S. Williamson

Book Overview

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: Guilford Publications
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Personal Authority

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.