You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family

In this revelatory book, esteemed family therapist Monica McGoldrick explores why families behave as they do, using genograms (family trees) to illustrate family patterns. Mapped out over a three-generation span, repeated estrangements, alliances, even divorces and suicides, prove more than coincidental. McGoldrick uses the genograms of famous families - including the Kennedys, Hepburns, Beethovens and Brontes - the discuss the influence of birth order and sibling rivalry, family myths and secrets, cultural differences, couple relationships and the pivotal role of loss. Relevant questions to ask appear at the end of each chapter, helping the reader become researcher, uncovering information previously withheld, misunderstood or overlooked.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/17/1995
ISBN: 9780393034943
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Booklist 03/15/1995 pg. 1290
Publishers Weekly 01/30/1995 pg. 91
Library Journal 02/15/1995 pg. 172