
More than 22 million American adults were raised by an alcoholic--nearly all of them receiving psychological and/or physical scars. Emily Marlin, drawing on her experiences as a therapist, marriage counselor, and child of an alcoholic, provides excellent suggestions for regaining...

Drawing on years of professional experience with alcoholic family systems and her own childhood with an alcoholic parent, Marlin addresses the legacy of doubt, fear, shame and silence that surrounds adult children of alcoholics.