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Freedom from Family Dysfunction provides a healing solution for people caught in the chaos of a dysfunctional family struggling with the addiction or mental illness of one of its members. Using vivid portrayals of the pain and powerlessness, readers are provided a step-by-step method to promote health in their systems and heal themselves.
List of contents
Introduction: My Experience in the World That Seems So Insane
1 Belief Systems: Uncovering the Wounded Family System
2 Rodeo Clowns, Life Jackets, and Being on Call 24/7: What Do I Become?
3 Looking Inside: What Keeps Us Stuck?
4 Intergenerational Insanity: The Impaired Coping Model
5 Deepening Our Understanding of the Family Deal: Early Influences, Failed Methods, Enabling, and Dependency
6 There Is a Solution: Small Shifts Produce Big Results
7 Touching It with Love: Choosing Connection over Being Right
8 "I Just Want Them to Be Happy": Your Recovery Action Plan
9 Freedom from Family Dysfunction: Staying on the Path
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Kenneth Perlmutter, PhD is a California-based Family Systems Psychologist. He is Founder of the Family Recovery Institute in San Rafael, CA. The Institute and its staff provide individual and family treatment, family systems assessment, and clinical training for professionals at all levels. He has served on the graduate faculty for San Francisco State University Counseling Department and as Associate Professor of Chemical Dependency Studies at California State University East Bay. He has appeared as an expert commentator for KCBS radio and been published in Sober World and Counselor magazines. He makes his home in Marin County, California with his wife of 35 years, Jacqueline, and their yellow lab ShoSho. Visit www.FamilyRecoveryInstitute.com to learn more.
