Your Family Your Self

Families sometimes feel like controlled experiments in insanity. They're like mobiles, with each member involved in a complex balance of supporting and opposing roles. This is the first DIY family therapy book, based on family systems therapy, which uses the model of the mobile, and gives readers powerful tools for solving family problems as well as new methods that can help solve individual problems - without the expense of therapy. Systems theory rests on the belief that by shifting the position of one family member changes the positions of the others, so that if only one reader uses this book, the whole family may be transformed.