You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family

I brought the book mainly for a couples and family counseling I am taking. As I get a chance to read the book. I will revise my revise review to provide more elaboration.

Fascinating info on the backgrounds of famous families and how generations exert their influence on subsequent ones. Also good info for the current generation.

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superb (I know that cos my wife said so!!) We both enjoyed it thoroughly.

A really useful resource.

Fascinating vignettes from the lives of our nation's founders and others who have shaped our world and culture. Monica McGOLDrick!

This is a wonderful book. You won't see many family therapy jargons here. Insead, Monica McGoldrick delicately uses famous people's biographic stories to illustrate the complex intergenerational family systems dynamics. Ths book is easy to read. It is suitable for various kinds of readers. If you want to explore into your family history to better aware of what impacts your family have on you, this is for you. The book offers a lot of lively examples and tips on how to construct your own family genograms. You will experience the incredible power of the family systems, and also the intertwined influence of larger social-cultural-historical context. if you are a family/marriage counselor, the book is a necessary resource for you when you are dealing with the clients' family of origin issues. If you are simply insterested to delve into famous people's lives, the book also can satisfy your curiousity. It explains how family patterns accross generations would shape those people's personality characteristics and relationship patterns. I highly recommend this book to all mental health practitioners, and all who want to improve your life and get a better understanding of yourself!

The author has done a splendid job pulling together family narratives from which we can all learn. It is truly amazing how this works, especially for those of us who have intuited the need to do genealogical work over the years, with the intention of healing our family trees. I highly recommend this book. It is interesting and not heavily laden with psychobabble. GREAT JOB MONICA McGOLDRICK!!!!! THank you!!

Must have book for all interested in influence of family relations.