Private Lies Frank Pittman

Name: Private Lies By Frank Pittman
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Private Lies by Frank Pittman

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Infidelity is the most common major crisis of marriage. In this wise book, a psychiatrist and family therapist discusses four kinds of infidelity, why they happen, and what they mean.

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Private Lies: Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy by Frank Pittman

Why do half the people in marriages have affairs? What problems are they trying to solve? Using actual case studies, as well as examples from music, literature, and film, Dr. Pittman identifies four basic patterns of infidelity - the accidental encounter, habitual philandering, marital arrangements, and romance -, discusses how to limit the damage that affairs do, and offers practical suggestions on how to make a marriage work.

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Dr. Pittman takes us on a remarkably informative foray into the unknown territory of marital infidelity. Private Lies manages to be delightfully readable, compassionate and awfully funny at the same time. --Maggie Scarf"
Private Lies is the Reconstruction, the National Recovery Act, and the Marshall Plan for families devastated by the flakiness and fluff of the Me Decade. It is a funny, personable, anecdotal yet clearly resounding, fundamental, visionary call for nothing so American as marriage and family. Pittman's program is an appeal through the last few centuries for those old American verities: truth, fidelity, and loyalty. The missiles that destroy the American family, the bombs dropped on the American home, the grenades that split us apart were the neurotic weapons of lies and deceptions. Truth, he tells us, and fidelity are the true and powerful weapons of peace, hope, and unity in the American family. A timely, courageous, necessary message. --Pat Conroy"

About Frank Pittman

Frank Pittman, M.D., was a psychiatrist and family therapist in Atlanta, Georgia. A renowned author of many books, he also wrote a regular column, "Ask Dr. Frank", which appeared in Psychology Today, and was a regular contributor to Psychotherapy Networker. He died in 2012.

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GOR001475089

ISBN 13

9780393307078

ISBN 10

0393307077

Title

Private Lies: Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy by Frank Pittman

Author

Frank Pittman

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Used - Very Good

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