942: Ken Adams | The Confusing Dynamics of Covert Incest
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4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
How does emotional enmeshment (aka covert incest) with a parent shape our mental health and relationships? Dr. Ken Adams is here to help us understand.
What We Discuss with Dr. Ken Adams:- What enmeshment is, and how it entwines family members in an emotionally unhealthy way.
- How enmeshment dictates the course of future relationships.
- The connection between enmeshment and abuse.
- The underlying causes for enmeshment to take hold.
- How to spot enmeshment and begin the process of healing from its repercussions.
- And much more...
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| 0:12.2 | They've over-romanticized their love for their child. |
| 0:15.0 | The little girl in me is turned on by my child. |
| 0:19.0 | There's a romanticization of it. |
| 0:21.0 | There's a discussion about intimate details that don't belong. There is, do I look good |
| 0:27.1 | in my night down or inappropriate boundary crossing that doesn't have to involve physical sexual |
| 0:34.1 | contact but can be sexualized. The boy feels like the |
| 0:37.7 | sexualized boyfriend to the mother. |
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