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Invisible loyalties
Book by Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
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Sep 30, 2026
Ep. 48: Mona Fishbane
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4:19Mona FishbaneGUEST
And I was exposed to Nagy's ideas in the early 70s when I was in graduate school, when Nagy was just starting to write.
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4:26Mona FishbaneGUEST
I think his, not his first publication, but the first book I believe was, or the first major book was Invisible Loyalties, published in 1973 or 4.
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4:36Mona FishbaneGUEST
Um, I grew up with the field of family therapy.
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4:39Mona FishbaneGUEST
There were like three or four books you could read and you would get the field.
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9:57Mona FishbaneGUEST
And he says, if we deny those loyalties and don't.
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10:04Mona FishbaneGUEST
be there for our parents as they get older or are very angry at them, when we may then reenact that dynamic with our parents, but in a destructive way with our partner or our child.
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10:16Mona FishbaneGUEST
He calls these invisible loyalties, right? That was one of his first books is invisible loyalties.
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10:23Mona FishbaneGUEST
So there's no free lunch.