Anatomy of a Secret Life Are the People In Your Life Hiding Something You Should Know?

What do these people have in common? The traveling businessman who brings prostitutes back to his hotel room The wealthy woman who is arrested for shoplifting The seemingly happily married man who cruises gay clubs They are all, despite differences in degree, gender, or age, living a double life, one of our most deeply ingrained but poorly understood psychological behaviors. Now,Todayshow psychiatrist Gail Saltz examines the widespread phenomenon of secret lives in a book that provides shivers of recognition, guilty pleasures, and insights into human behavior. Saltz reveals how assuming a different identity can be healthy and tremendously liberating. But leading a secret life can be risky. She shows the devastating emotional, social, and familial consequences that can resultboth for the person and for those close to that person. The definitive popular work on how a secret life is formed, lived, justified, and exposed,Anatomy of a Secret Lifeincludes both contemporary case studies and historical examples (such as Lindbergh, T. E. Lawrence, and Tchaikovsky) of people who have risked it all for a taste of forbidden fruit.