Family Healing, Family Therapy

A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children.

Parents whose adult children have cut off contact wonder:How did this happen? Where did I go wrong? What happened to my loving child? Over time, holidays, birthdays, and even the birth of grandchildren may pass in silence. Anguish may turn into anger.

Widely used by both family therapists and all health care
professionals, the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of
information gathered during a family assessment and finding patterns in
the family system for more targeted treatment.

Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and practiced around the world.

Murray Bowen (19131990) was the first to study the family in a live-in setting and describe specific details about how families function as systems. His theories dominated family therapy for decades.

If you or someone you love grew up with an emotionally unavailable, narcissistic, or selfish parent, you probably struggle with residual feelings of anger, abandonment, loneliness, or shame. For anyone who endured a nightmare or a wasteland instead of a nurturing childhood, The Toxic Parents Survival Guide will offer you the

Break the silence and heal the rift