We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Anyone interested in family dynamics can benefit from the wisdom presented in totally accessible manner. Robin Skynner was a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who flew the Mosquito twin-engined bomber, and was also a psychiatric pioneer and innovator in the field of treating mental illness. I don't agree with every word - the recommendations about strict discipline for children seem over-harsh to me, for instance - but much of what's said is revelatory and fascinating. Não é um livro fácil de ler pela quantidade de informação transmitida, muitas vezes me revi nas situações faladas e isso às vezes pode doer.

I first read this about twelve years ago, and found it extremely helpful in understanding my sons better. 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.The dialogue aims to lay out what Cleese learnt and what Skynner, I guess, hoped to convey to his patients about the dynamics of the human mind and family life in the course of therapy. I already know a great deal of what they were discussing, but I found revisiting the topics in this friendly format gave me a firmer understanding. Homosexuals are deviants and are the way they are because they missed a stage in childhood, hmm, really? And notice the parts you most strongly disagree with - what might be behind the screen that's making you act that way? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Ocena w dół za rozdział o homo- i transseksualizmie - mogli sobie go oszczędzić, nie mając wiedzy na ten temat, bo teorie przez nich głoszone są niebezpieczne. One could take the view that in terms of time, money and convenience a three hundred page book is a considerable improvement on three and a half years in group therapy. He subsequently worked with adults and children of an unusually wide range of socio-economic status, from the poorest districts of the East End of London to private practice. There are some great ideas in here still, and the dialogue format is very engaging and easy to read, but reading it from thirty-ish years later, be prepared to discard a lot as you go.They discuss some very complicated psychoanalytic theory in a very accessible way, without once mentioning any technical terms. He was successively the Director of the Woodberry Down Child Guidance Unit, Physician-in Charge of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Senior Tutor in Psychotherapy at the Institute of Psychiatry and Honorary Associate Consultant at the Maudsley Hospital.