FAMILIES & HOW TO SURVIVE THEM

Most people have emotions they can't handle, so they screen them off’, hiding them from others and even themselves. They often choose partners with the same inhibitions, which are then passed on to their children ... from generation to generation. Using the most modern experiences of family therapy this book shows how understanding can lead to progress, the taboos can be broken down, and development of healthy relationships and families can take place. The subject is vital to us all, and the authors deal with it lucidly and incisively, with a lightness of touch that is brilliantly served by Bud Handelsman’s cartoons. Robin Skynner has been a pioneer in group and family techniques of treatment and one of the founders of both the Institute of Group Analysis and Institute of Family Therapy, where he continues to teach. He is the author of the text book One Flesh: Separate Persons; Principles of Family and Marital Psychotherapy, Explorations with Families and Institutes and How to Survive Them. John Cleese is best known as a comic. He was born in Weston-super-Mare in 1939, got ‘A’ levels in science at the Clifton College Sports Academy, taught for two years and then studied Law at Cambridge, where he joined the Footlights. A psychiatrist and layman discuss the problems that can arise in marriage, parenthood, and personal relations, and look at jealousy, sexual problems, aggression, and role playing