Come Closer
Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy
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- Vorbestellbar
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- Erwartet am 29. Sept. 2026
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- CHF 15.00
Beschreibung des Verlags
For readers of Irving Yalom, Esther Perel, and Oliver Sacks, a profound and “deeply humane” (Meghan O’Rourke, bestselling author of The Invisible Kingdom) book by psychoanalyst and internationally bestselling author of Emotional Inheritance Dr. Galit Atlas that reveals how our childhood wounds hold the key to understanding our adult relationships.
What is the secret of emotional intimacy? How can understanding our childhood experiences give us the insights we need to be close to others in a truly satisfying, longer-lasting, and more meaningful way?
In Come Closer, Galit Atlas invites us inside the private lives of her patients—and into her own—to offer new, life-changing answers to these important questions. Atlas has identified six child archetypes—the frightened child, the melancholic child, the ashamed child, the invisible child, the guilty child, and the chosen child—and in these pages, she shows how each childhood wound plays out in our adult relationships.
In remarkably compelling and dramatic stories of both therapist and patient, Atlas illustrates how the child within us drives our love lives, forming patterns we repeat without awareness. Each narrative will have you on the edge of your seat, living the mystery alongside Atlas and her patients, uncovering roots, drawing parallels, and reaching insights and revelations, just as they do.
No one who reads this eye-opening and “stunning” (Ramani Durvasula, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of It’s Not You) book will ever see their relationships—or themselves—the same way again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Psychoanalyst Atlas (Emotional Inheritance) delivers a probing and compassionate examination of how childhood wounds shape adult relationships. Drawing from patient case studies, attachment theory, and personal experience, Atlas organizes the book around six "wounded child" archetypes: the frightened child, the melancholic child, the ashamed child, the invisible child, the guilty child, and the chosen child. Each section traces how early relational injuries—fear, loss, shame, invisibility, guilt, and "parentification," or being cast in the role of a caretaker—resurface in romantic relationships, driving patterns of longing, avoidance, and self-sabotage. For example, the author describes how Zoe, a woman whose volatile childhood home left her with a persistent sense of fear, wound up in a safe but emotionally distant marriage that let her avoid intimacy; she began to heal by introducing vulnerability into the relationship in ways that allowed her to feel safe. Atlas is at her strongest when moving between analysis and narrative, vividly showing how past hurts drive present-day choices without reducing patients to rigid diagnoses. Sharply observed and rendered in lucid prose, this will resonate with readers of Lori Gottlieb, Esther Perel, and Irvin Yalom.
