Families and How to Survive Them

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There are some great ideas in here still, and the dialogue format is very engaging and easy to read, but reading it from thirty-ish years later, be prepared to discard a lot as you go.

His chief interest was the practice and teaching of psychotherapy, with individuals, groups, families, couples and institutions.I really enjoyed this non-fiction book, even though I didn't agree with all of the opinions within it (what makes people homosexual for example). You might enjoy the occasional smile, and you won't get bored, but you won't be rolling around on the floor laughing.

In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers.Being pregnant probably helped as I'm very open to creating a fabulously nurturing environment for my little sproglett whilst trying to figure out how to handle my current step-mother hang ups and the fear of separate families, me and mine versus him and his. This isn't a stereotypical self-help type of book and that makes it THE book that could save your marriage and/or the way you relate to your children. The important posts he successfully filled were senior tutor (psychotherapy) at the Institute of Psychiatry, honorary assistant consultant psychiatrist at Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital and physician in charge of the Department of Psychiatry at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London.