{"product_id":"anatomy-of-a-secret-life-the-psychology-of-living-a-lie","title":"Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie","description":"What do these people have in common?\n\n• The traveling businessman who brings prostitutes back to his hotel room\n• The wealthy woman who is arrested for shoplifting\n• The seemingly happily married man who cruises gay clubs\n\nThey are all—despite differences in degree, gender, and age—living a double life, one of our most deeply ingrained, but poorly understood psychological drives. Now, Dr. Gail Saltz steps into the breach to explore —in detail and based on the latest research—our impulse to create and nurture alter egos.\n\nSaltz reveals how assuming a different identity can be healthy and tremendously liberating. For proof, we need look no further than the innumerable people who reinvent themselves by moving to the big city, or the countless pseudonymous bloggers. But, as she also makes clear, leading a secret life comes with potentially serious psychological risks. She shows that, in more extreme cases, leading a secret life can have devastating emotional, social and familial consequences—both for the person leading the secret life, and for those close to him or her.\n\nThe definitive popular work on how a secret life is formed, lived, justified, and exposed, Saltz’s Anatomy includes contemporary case studies and historical examples (Lindbergh, T. E. Lawrence, Tchaikovsky, et cetera) of people who have risked it all for a taste of forbidden fruit.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0767922743\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0767922743.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Gail Saltz\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41517228228666,"sku":"DBV.0767922743.VG","price":6.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0767922743-0.jpg?v=1783827892","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/anatomy-of-a-secret-life-the-psychology-of-living-a-lie","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}