This video speaks to viewers about the varied dimensions of secrets and their implications for families, and techniques for ushering families through the process of identifying, understanding, and resolving secrets.

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Most families have secrets, handed down from generation to generation like "booby-trapped heirlooms" waiting to explode. Secrets have far-reaching implications for families, setting the stage for a tense emotional climate in which guardedness, anger, and reactivity become the norm.

In this illuminating video, Evan Imber-Black--an internationally recognized expert on rituals, larger systems, and family secrets--speaks to viewers about the varied dimensions of secrets and their implications for families, and techniques for ushering families through the process of identifying, understanding, and resolving secrets. Illustrating her observations and insights with family photographs and a vivid case example based on clinical material, Dr. Imber-Black presents a series of insightful, and often moving, family therapy sessions in which she models the various stages of helping families to: