A watershed book for me.
Although I`ve always known intellectually there must be others who have been totally cast off by their families, emotionally,I felt like the only one...
Thank you for reaching my soul.

A wonderful book that has helped me find ways I can handle the rift going on in my family. It does not solve the problem, it just helps me to find ways I can feel better about myself. Thank you, Mr. Sichel for your insights.

great

I had hoped it would give us ways to improve family relations, but it did not.

This book is spot-on when it comes to analyzing dis-functional families and those roles that cause it within the family. Does your family have a leader that is an "injustice collector"? Learn what "black and white" thinking is and why some play a game called "divide and conquer" also called "splitting", which are behaviors that create most all of family dis-function. But most importantly, this book helps you heal from family estrangements and helps you understand what your family's myths are, and also helps you to learn what a healthy family should be. So glad to have found this book. I hope it will be an acceptable thing to send this book to every family member as a Christmas gift, so that we all can learn from what we have been doing wrong and what we have been doing right. Sadly, those that read this book are not the problem causers. How do we get the others to read the book?