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It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless millions of us struggle with these kinds of dysfunctions every day, and until very recently we struggled alone. Pulling together both theory and clinical practice, John and Linda Friel provide a readable explanation of what happened to us and how we can rectify it.… (meer)
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Its inhabitatns are, as the man once said, "Whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches," by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holyl men," and he would have meant the same thing. -- from "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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This book is dedicated to our family system. To our parents, Elden and Alice Friel and Lloyd and Phyllis Olund; to our brothers and sisters, Bill and Nance McIntyre, Rich Friel, Steve and Margo Bateson; and to our nieces and nephews Brian and Carrie McIntyre, John Michael, Mark and Mary Friel. And especially to our children, Kristin, Rebecca, and David that their lives may be full and wam and true.
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[Preface] Your own recovery will be well under way when you truly trust that your own example is the most powerful way to help others.
[Introduction] It is written above all, to shed if nothing more, a flicker of light on family dynamics that lead so many of us into an adulthood of addiction, depression, compulsion, unhealthy dependency, stress disorders, unsatisfying relationships and lives of quiet desperation.
It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless millions of us struggle with these kinds of dysfunctions every day, and until very recently we struggled alone. Pulling together both theory and clinical practice, John and Linda Friel provide a readable explanation of what happened to us and how we can rectify it.