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Tanzina Vega is writing a series on pandemic-driven shifts for Fortune magazine. I was very moved to read that a family had relied on my book Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them as their guide to reconciliation. As Vega writes: In a December 2020 interview about family estrangement, Karl Pillemer, a professor of human development...
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it's not every day that a team of camerapersons invade my house, set up, and spend a day with me! Even more exciting, our work on the Cornell Estrangement and Reconciliation Project is being featured this Sunday (9/26) on CBS News Sunday Morning! I'll be interviewed, as will some people actively dealing with estrangement. Please tune...
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This very insightful article from the New York Times focuses on the heightened grief people in a family rift may feel when the person from whom they are estranged dies. It can lead to a kind of "complicated grief," involving strong feelings of ambivalence. The article features insights from my book Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend...