You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family

This beloved classic poignantly explains how constructing the genogram, or a basic familytree, can help us to better understand and mend family relationships and dynamics. Here, readers learn how genograms can reveal a family's history of estrangement, alliance, divorce, orsuicide, exposing intergenerational patterns that prove more than coincidental. The book shedslight on a range of complex issues such as birth order and sibling rivalry, family myths and secrets, cultural differences, couple relationships, and the pivotal role of loss.

In the third edition of this revelatory book, "godmother of genograms" Monica McGoldrickand family therapist Tracey Laszloffy focus on aiding readers in their own work to understandtheir family history and change their role in relationships where there is distance, conflict, orcutoff. Readers will also find new and updated material on the intergenerational transmission oftrauma, the ramifications of uncovering family secrets via DNA testing, and more.If you've ever struggled to understand the complex dynamics of your family--and yourplace within it--this book is for you.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/11/2024
ISBN: 9781324030140
Pages: 400