Family Systems


Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions
The Eight Concepts of Bowen Theory
No Bad Parts
Differentiation of Self: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives
Bowen Theory's Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
The Widow's War (Satucket, #1)
The Family Crucible
Family Evaluation
Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role
Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs
You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships
A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Rebecca C. Mandeville
It was not until I did my family genogram as part of my Masters in Counseling Psychology training that I learned of some of the devastating, traumatic events that had impacted my family-of-origin. Many genograms my clients have done as part of their family systems exploration reveal sudden, unexpected deaths (including suicides); illness; stillbirths; divorce; abandonment; 'missing' relatives'; and profound financial setbacks and losses. ...more
Rebecca C. Mandeville, Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Understanding Family Scapegoating Abuse

The very first conception of a Socialistic State is such a relation of the sexes as shall prevent men and women from falling into selfish family groups. Family life is eternally at war with Socialistic life. When you have a private household, you must have private property to feed it, hence a community of goods; the first idea of a Socialistic State has been found in every case to imply a community of children and to promote a community of wives.
William Beanland, The Case Against Socialism, Plainly Stated for the Man in the Street

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