Dysfunctional families and wounded relationships
Subtitle: Part I
By: Irene P. Stiver
Series: Work in progress -- no. 41; Work in progress (Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies) -- no. 41
Publisher: Stone Center, Wellesley College
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Wellesley, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Adult children of dysfunctional families; Parent and child; Dysfunctional families
Description: "This paper offers a relational model to explore dynamics in dysfunctional families. Some of the salient characteristics of these families are identified, i.e., secrecy, emotional inaccessibility of parents, and parentification of children. Holocaust survivor, alcoholic, and incest survivor families are used to illustrate different contexts in which these characteristics contribute to major disconnections in the children who live in them"--Abstract, p. 1.
Notes: Cover title.

"This paper was presented at a Stone Center Colloquium on May 3, 1989"--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-14).