Cutoffs: How Family Members Who Sever Relationships Can Reconnect

Everyone knows someone who won't go home again. In Cutoffs, esteemed counselor Carol Netzer speaks to families who experience the intense pain of cutoffs — a decisive leave-taking, a sudden end to a family relation. Drawing on her personal and professional experience, Netzer constructs a comprehensive framework for understanding the behavior which results in final separation and shows how symptoms can be recognized and hopefully prevented or repaired once they have occurred.