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You Can Go Home Again: Reconnecting with Your Family
Are you ready to reconnect with family in a meaningful way, but unsure where or how to begin?
This beloved classic poignantly explains how constructing the genogram, or a basic family tree, can help us to better understand and mend family relationships and dynamics. Readers learn how genograms can reveal a family’s history of estrangement, alliance, divorce, or suicide, exposing intergenerational patterns that prove more than coincidental. The book sheds light 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 McGoldrick and family therapist Tracey Laszloffy focus on aiding readers in their own work to understand their family history and change their role in relationships where there is distance, conflict, or cutoff. Readers will also find new and updated material on the intergenerational transmission of trauma, 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 your place within it—this book is for you.
This beloved classic poignantly explains how constructing the genogram, or a basic family tree, can help us to better understand and mend family relationships and dynamics. Readers learn how genograms can reveal a family’s history of estrangement, alliance, divorce, or suicide, exposing intergenerational patterns that prove more than coincidental. The book sheds light 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 McGoldrick and family therapist Tracey Laszloffy focus on aiding readers in their own work to understand their family history and change their role in relationships where there is distance, conflict, or cutoff. Readers will also find new and updated material on the intergenerational transmission of trauma, 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 your place within it—this book is for you.
400 pages, Paperback
Published June 11, 2024
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September 21, 2025I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. You Can Go Home Again by Monica McGoldrick and Tracey Laszloffy provides a toolbox for reconnecting with your family. The authors share their stories, as well as the family dynamics of many famous people, to help you understand the issues your own family may be facing. I found this especially interesting as I have both biological and adoptive families that bring quite unique perspectives to our lives. You will be able to identify patterns and behaviors that will allow you to make positive changes and heal.
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August 4, 2025
This book is basically just different stories about famous people’s families. Kind of a huge waste of time in my opinion.
Also contains one million genograms but no key to explain what all the random symbols mean. What the fuck?
Also contains one million genograms but no key to explain what all the random symbols mean. What the fuck?
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