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This classic text poignantly explains how constructing the genogram, or a basic family tree, can help us better understand and mend family relationships and dynamics. Here, 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.

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At a time when our world seems hampered by tribalism and polarization, this profound book provides a glimmer of hope and inspiration about the significance of relational connection and, more importantly, each of us finding home. A must-read for anyone searching for a guide to finding deeper and more substantive relational connections within our families and beyond.--Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, author of Racial Trauma: Clinical Strategies for Healing Invisible Wounds Readers will most value the practical guidelines in their efforts to reconnect, heal old wounds, and gain new perspectives of their families'--and their own--struggles and resilience.--Froma Walsh, PhD, professor emerita, Crown Family School, the University of Chicago, author of Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience To read this book, which you (and your therapist) must do, is to become an expert on that fascinating dance we call family as you re-vision your past and move forward into your relational future in bold new ways.--Harriet Lerner, PhD, author of The Dance of Anger

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Tracey Laszloffy, PhD, LMFT, director of the Center for Healing Connections, lives in Norwich, Connecticut. Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD, Director of the Multicultural Family InstituteTeacher and on the Clinical Faculty of the Psychiatry Department of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is the “godmother of genograms.” She has an international reputation as a trainer and author, and lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.

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