Hiding from Love : How to Change the Withdrawal Patterns That Isolate and Imprison You

by Dr. John Townsend, Coauthor of Boundaries

• ISBN13: 9780310238287
• ISBN10: 0310238285
• Edition: Workbook
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

Reckless Wedding, Maria Flook's first collection of poems, was chosen for the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series in 1982 and it also received The Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. The New York Times wrote: "This poet has the power to see unexpected resemblances - a wonderfully unsettling mix of sexual contamination and back-attic mustiness". Maria Flook has published a second collection of poems, Sea Room, and four books of fiction. He first novel, Family Night, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, was awarded a PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation. She has also published two collections of short fiction, the a new novel, Open Water, about which the New Yorker wrote: "Flook has fashioned a beautiful book out of the unlikeliest elements".

Table of Contents

A Word of Welcome	7	(10)
PART ONE: The Hiding Dilemma
Jenny's Story	10	(6)
Our Two Biggest Problems	16	(8)
``This Wasn't in Plan A''	24	(9)
Our Need for Attachment	33	(7)
Our Need for Separateness	40	(11)
Our Need for Resolving Good and Bad	51	(9)
Our Need for Authority and Adulthood	60	(10)
PART TWO: Helpful and Harmful Hiding
Helpful Hiding: Dealing with Suffering	70	(8)
Helpful Hiding: Preparing for Relationship	78	(7)
Harmful Hiding: Six Critical Stages	85	(10)
Harmful Hiding: The Results	95	(8)
The Cost of Harmful Hiding	103	(6)
PART THREE: Hope for Those in Hiding
Hiding from Attachment	109	(12)
Hiding from Separateness	121	(11)
Hiding from Our Good and Bad Selves	132	(9)
Hiding from Authority and Adulthood	141	(9)
Coming Out of Hiding	150