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In this revised and updated 20th anniversary edition of his groundbreaking book, Dr. Kenneth Adams, a leading expert on covert incest, sex addiction, and childhood trauma, offers tools for identifying and healing from covert incestuous relationships that affect adult relationships and lives. He explains how 'feeling close' with a parent is not always the source of comfort the phrase suggests, especially when that child is cheated out of a childhood by being a parent's surrogate partner. Dr. Adams includes a new Q&A section that directly addresses issues including:
•�How can this be incestuous when there is no physical sexual contact?
•�Why is sexual addiction so common with covert incest survivors?
•�Why is it so hard for covert incest survivors to commit to romantic relationships?�
•�If my partner is a covert incest survivor, how can I help?
•�Can I pass covert incest on to my children?
Through new findings and expanded discussions on 'engulfment,' 'excessive guilt,' 'loyalty,' and 'narcissism,' and others, Silently Seduced offers a framework to understand covert incest and its effect on sexuality, intimacy, and relationships to facilitate the process of recovery.
- Sales Rank: #26758 in Books
- Published on: 2011-09-01
- Released on: 2011-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.40" h x .50" w x 5.50" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
About the Author
Kenneth M. Adams, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and the clinical director of Kenneth M. Adams and Associates in suburban Detroit, Michigan. In addition to maintaining an active clinical practice, Dr. Adams is a national lecturer, workshop leader, and consultant in the areas of childhood abuse, dysfunctional family systems, and sex addiction. He is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), a CSAT supervisor, and a CSAT training facilitator as well as an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) practitioner.�A member of�the American Psychological Association, Michigan Psychological Association, Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH), and International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP), Dr. Adams is also an advisory board member to SASH and IITAP, and an editorial board member of Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.
Dr. Adams, along with coauthor Dan Robinson,�received the 2001 Reader's Choice Award for "Shame Reduction, Affect Regulation and Sexual Boundary Development: Essential Building Blocks in Sex Addiction Treatment," the article voted by subscribers of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention as the Article of the Year. He also received the 2011 Carnes Award for outstanding�work and research in the field of sex addiction.
In 2010, Dr. Adams was part of a focus group set up to advise the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on developing criteria for security clearances for�federal employees. He specifically advised on matters related to sex addiction and personality disorders.
Dr. Adams is the coeditor, with Dr. Patrick Carnes,�of Clinical Management of Sex Addiction and the author of When He's Married to Mom. He does regular speaking engagements and media appearances,�including national and local television and radio. For more information, visit www.drkenadams.com.
Patrick J. Carnes, Ph.D., is a nationally known speaker on addiction and recovery issues. He is the author of Out of the Shadows, Contrary to Love, A Gentle Path Through the 12 Steps, and Don't Call It Love. He is the clinical director for sexual disorder services at The Meadows in Wickenburg, Arizona. Dr. Carnes is the editor-in-chief of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, the official journal of the National Council of Sexual Addiction/Compulsivity, an organization of which he is a board member. He also serves on the national advisory board of the American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders.
Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Introduction
When I began writing Silently Seduced twenty years ago, I could not have imagined its longevity and impact. Since then, hundreds of covert incest survivors have discussed the book with me in therapy sessions and have mentioned it in lectures. They most frequently report two main reactions to the book: one, that it clarifies a troublesome parent-child relationship history that was perplexing and previously beyond the reader's understanding; and two, that the succinct and clear manner in which it is written allows readers to be undistracted by repetition or material that is spurious to the topic. As such, Silently Seduced has not only been informative to its readers, but transformative as well. For many, it opened an emotional, experiential moment that ignited the search for more clarity and healing.
Over the years, I have received many important and thoughtful questions that the original text did not adequately answer. For example, some readers are still seeking clarity on why I consider it incestuous when a parent turns a child into a surrogate husband or wife but does not touch them sexually. Others have sought more information on how best to manage their adult relationship with their parent. They want to neither continue with the same level of inappropriate closeness nor completely 'divorce' their parent.
Other questions have been about how to deal with siblings, how to date, and how to handle the tension between the intrusive parent and the romantic partner. Readers have wanted more perspective on emotional issues, such as how to break free from the suffocating guilt or fear of engulfment that seems to plague covert incest survivors so often. A desire for a healthy relationship and a way to finally feel contented in love is the source of many questions. Wanting to understand why their sexuality seems so burdened, even though there was no sexual touch, creates a frequent source of confusion for survivors.
I've also been asked about certain populations or special circumstances. For example, are there different issues for a gay man who is involved as a surrogate husband to his mother than for a straight man? What about when a daughter plays the role of a surrogate partner to her mother as opposed to her father? Are there implications for single-parent households or for adults who choose to have and raise a child as a single parent? What are the specific problems and concerns for the partners or spouses of covert incest survivors? How should they best respond to the difficulties in their relationships caused by the covert incest of their partners?
Although many survivors of covert incest are able to relate to the stories of overt incest survivors, most struggle to feel validated because they have not been physically violated. Covert incest survivors are still suffering in silence. In fact, most are not aware that their relationships with their parents were incestuous. I've written this book to give such survivors a framework to understand what happened to them, how their lives continue to be affected, and how to begin the process of recovery.
What follows in this new edition is an update to the original text and a new chapter that addresses the questions that have emerged over the last twenty years. The new chapter, Frequently Asked Questions, is a dialogue between you, the reader, and me, as if we were sitting down in a therapy session or I was responding during a lecture. In addition, new material has emerged in the field over the years that supports my observations. The bibliography has been updated to reflect those sources.
In the first part of the book, I use the word 'victim' to describe the person still experiencing the effects of covert incest. These early chapters describe the victimization process and its consequences. In the last chapters, I discuss change and recovery. I use the word 'survivor' instead of 'victim' at that point to help underscore the important transformation from being a victim to reclaiming life. Also, to help the stories flow without the encumbering use of he/she or him/her, I use personal pronouns interchangeably.
The stories presented in the book are composites designed to illustrate the traits of covert incest survivors. Your actual experience may vary. No one story represents any one person's particular life. To protect their right to privacy, I have purposely avoided using the stories of my clients. However, their sharing certainly has influenced my thinking. To that extent, there may be some overlap between what I have heard in my practice and what I have included in these pages. I am grateful to my clients for the sharing of their lives and the trust they have given me in the process. I respect their courage.
As I did in the original book, I strive to be clear and to the point, with as little psychological jargon as possible, in hopes that the new edition becomes another transformative step in your journey from pain and struggle to healing and freedom.
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48 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Enlightening
By Mommaw
"Silently Seduced" is revealing detailed information on the dynamics of abnormal relationships. Covertly incestuous and enmeshed relationships are extremely damaging to everyone involved. A whole family is often affected by just one persons insecurity and inability to come to grips with their abnormal behaviors and patterns of living. Silently Seduced addresses all the ins and outs of certain characteristics and the motivations that cause enmeshed relationships to develop. It is a shame that this type of dysfunction exists and those who participate in it are so very convincing and manage to control everyone around them in order to be in charge. Making a child their partner creates a whole atmosphere of chaotic behaviors that are not normal. When a child feels they have to be the interveining influence between two adults and try to fix everything it puts them in an unjust and unreal position, one that is impossible. When an adult emotionally and or physically disconnects from their spouse because their is no love or chemistry and becomes solely involved with a child for some sad sense of self fulfillment it creates a totally out of control family atmosphere, the chosen child becomes the target.
Silently Seduced is a must read for anyone who knows of these particular family dynamics and wants to understand what causes this type of dysfunction. The following are quotes from the book, things that stood out to me while I was reading it. Reading the whole book really is an enlightening adventure.
Page 15
"Covert incest occurs when a child becomes the object of a parent's affection, love, passion and preoccupation. The parent, motivated by loneliness and emptiness created by a chronically troubled marriage or relationship, makes the child a surrogate partner. The boundary between caring love and incestuous love is crossed when the relationship with the child exists to meet the needs of the parent rather than those of a child. As the deterioration in the marriage progresses, the dependency on the child grows, and the opposite-sex parent's response to the child becomes increasingly characterized by desperation, jealousy, and a disregard for personal boundaries. The child becomes an object to be manipulated and used so the parent can avoid the pain and reality of a troubled marriage.
page 20
In a covertly incestuous relationship, the parent complains to the child about the difficulties in the marriage. The child becomes the parent's confidante.
The family system works to seek balance and tries to correct itself, even in adulthood. As long as the abuse or neglect experienced in childhood remains buried within, we re-create our family in adult relationships. This is an effort to work out and resolve the childhood pain. yes, the family system continues to affect one's life when one is no longer living at home and has dismissed childhood as gone and best forgotten".
"Silently Seduced" shares on how those who are controlling personalities operate and how they involve those who are innocent. Many incested/enmeshed individuals has a sense of shame causing them to compensate for having not felt a sense of love. They attempt to put their life in "perfect" order to compensate for the chaos in the relationships of her heart. Unable to feel the warmth of love, they desperately needs to control their world and is not able to tolerate any deviation to their plans and world. Doing things right is the only reward they can attain as they live very carefully in fear that a small slip up could cause them to lose their fragile hold on things. They clutch and hold on tightly those who they wish to control and manipulate. Believing within they are no real self, that they are not loved, or respected, or needed so they must make themselves lovable, appear respectable, and create the illusion of being indispensable to others. They live by their false self, often bouncing between over and under inflated presentations of themselves. They strive to present a perfect image and is not genuine.
I highly recommend this book.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
The best on the topic for sources of repetitive pain in relationships. Authoritative, wise, and complete.
By informed_shopper
This book does the great service of accessibly articulating the emotional landscape of adults who were leaned on too much as children by their parents. The author describes the workings of unresolved feelings in ways that honor every adult child and parent who has lived this. Powerful and concise, and worth reading with a highlighter in hand. The scope of the book is thorough enough to provide hope and good orderly direction. The only book on this topic that gently, respectfully, but directly addresses this type of healing without leaving anything or anyone out.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Spot on Book
By Silent nomore
As someone that has gone thru Covert Incest, this book is the hardest book to ever read in my life. It was given to me many years ago by a friend when they said it fit me to a "T." They were so right, I am just now able to open up and go past Chapter one. If you have had or have a parent that treats you more like a spouse rather than a child, I urge you to read this book.
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