Grayson, Curt

Creating a Safe Place : Christians Healing from the Hurt of Dysfunctional Families / Curt Grayson and Jan Johnson - San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 1991 - x, 222 p. ; 21 cm.

The problems of our past -- Dysfunctionality : the handicap of being human -- What it was like to be a child in a dysfunctional family (part 1) -- What is was like to be a child in a dysfunctional family (part 2) -- Roles that get us through childhood -- My past lives in me -- The problems of our present -- Scrambling to be adults -- Blurred spiritual vision -- Religious myths that sabotage recovery -- "Compulsive? who me?" -- The processes of our recovery -- How soon will this be over? -- Reparenting the child within -- What could go wrong? -- The partners in our recovery -- Feeling safe at church -- Support groups : bearing each other's burdens -- How to start a church-related ACDF support group -- Leaders who make the church a safe place.

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Adult children of dysfunctional families Religious life.Twelve-step programs Religious aspects Christianity.

BV4596.A274 / .G73 1991