Childhood's Secrets: Intimacy, Privacy, and the Self Reconsidered

by Max Van Manen, Bas Levering

This exploration of secrecy aims to overturn prevailing views of secrets as undesirable or unhealthy social and psychological phenomena. It looks at the positive aspects of secrecy and identifies it as a crucial part of human development.

208 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 1996

About the author

At present Max van Manen is involved is a post-retirement teaching program at the University of Alberta where he has been teaching the doctoral research seminar Phenomenological Research and Writing. In addition Max van Manen is working of several books on phenomenological methodology and pedagogy as an ethical practice.
http://www.maxvanmanen.com/