They discuss some very complicated psychoanalytic theory in a very accessible way, without once mentioning any technical terms. Ale po raz kolejny, autorzy chcą powiedzieć za dużo, za wiele wytłumaczyć, przez co jest zbyt ogólna i po łebkach. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences.

In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. He was adversely affected by the shared destruction and slaughter he was obliged to carry out, an experience that, for a variety of complex reasons, drew him to psychiatry as an eventual vocation. A logical development was the emergence of the Institute of Group Analysis for the specific purpose of giving training in group therapy.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This was also in the form of a convivial conversation between Cleese and Skynner and following the same structure as the book, albeit in an abridged form. Robin Skynner will be remembered for his prolific writing; he authored One Flesh: Separate Persons, Principles of Family and Marital Psychotherapy (1976), Explorations with Families: Group-Analysis and Family Therapy (1987), Institutes and How to Survive Them: Mental Health Training and Consultation (1989), Family Matters (1995), Families and How to Survive Them (1975), and Life and How to Survive It. This book, along with Lise Bourbeau's "Five injuries" are the best thing I've read on the topic of why we do what we do, we fear what we fear, we love what we love and we act in ways we normally don't understand. The psychology of people functioning (or rather, not) as families is explored and explained by Robin Skynner in conversations with John Cleese.

Ocena byłaby wyższa, bo w porównaniu z następną książką (którą przeczytałam wcześniej) "Żyć na tym świecie i przetrwać" jest bardziej konkretna i więcej tam przystępnie wytłumaczonych mechanizmów dot. In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. An interesting and different book on psychology which is aimed at the average reader rather than the psychology student or medical expert. He was a founder of the Group-Analytic Practice and of the Institute of Group-Analysis, and a founder and first chairman of the Institute of Family Therapy, London.The book was also serialised as a six-part radio series for the UK BBC station BBC Radio 4, with each episode being 30 minutes long. One warning - much of this book goes against the common wisdom of the day and the authors don't propose that parents mollycoddle their children. He studied Law at Cambridge University and has enjoyed a successful career in comedy, theatre, film and television. He became Foulkes's pupil and later his patient in a group; Robin Skynner would readily admit he needed treatment himself. Czytając należy brać pod uwagę czas, kiedy była pisana i aktualny stan wiedzy psychologicznej na tamten moment.

John Cleese (ator, do Monty Python) e o psiquiatra Robin Skynner conversam sobre casamento, filhos, amor, educação, paranoias, tudo aquilo que nos preocupa. Um livro que se desenvolve em 5 longos diálogos mas que se leem com muita facilidade até porque os autores vão ajudando os leitores a perceberem tudo. It takes the form of a conversation between English funnyman, John Cleese and his psychologist, Robin Skinner. Good relationships bring lots of different feelings but mainly positive ones that lift your heart or at least stabilise you so you feel strong inside and able to deal with pain.Overall, the book reminded me of my old day dream, in which one travels as a pilgrim to the temple of the God, sleeps in the temple overnight hoping for a significant dream - hopefully on that doesn't involve triangles, then on the way out of the temple in the morning you read the words know thyself over the doorway. As Freud blamed all psychological ailments on penises and patients' poor relationships with their mothers, so "Families and How to Survive Them", tends to, in my view, oversimplify some of the issues. The structure is roughly chronological in that it discusses human life from starting a relationship to first baby and the child's developmental stages up to the child being sexually mature and ready for marriage.

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).Then the two men begin to reminisce about how smacking improved their relationships with their children and brought them closer together (I assume they mean non-literally, not just because their hand was coming into sharp contact with the child's backside which is pretty close contact), so it comes as a mild surprise that they are not enthusiastic about sado-masochism. It is still highly enjoyable though, containing both insights as well as a lot of fun passages and comments. 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.