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  • Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

  • When Parents Make Their Children Partners
  • By: Kenneth Adams
  • Narrated by: Craig Jessen
  • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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By: Kenneth Adams
Narrated by: Craig Jessen
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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.

©2011 Kenneth M. Adams (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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informative and interesting read!!

I was struggling to find a way or words to explain my husband's mothers behavior toward my husband. I knew it was not normal and i wanted to use the word incestuous but it wasn't physical in nature. I used words to describe it into Google and I ended up stumbling across this book, it 100% sums up everything I was thinking but had no idea what it was. I found the narrator fine and easy to listen and understand. it's the information that is the key to a very confusing lock that sets this book apart from the rest!

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