Many of the difficult people you encounter in daily life can be avoided, but what if they're family members? What if the difficult person is a parent, a sibling, one of your children, or your mate? In Overcoming Your Difficult Family, life coach and retired family therapist Eric Maisel offers useful strategies for dealing with the people you're connected to for life, even when they are not cooperative. Dr. Maisel tackles the problematic aspects of families, describing eight vital skills to help you cope with challenging relationships. The book also serves as a unique "field guide" to common types of dysfunctional families - authoritarian families, anxious families, addicted families, and more - and how to thrive despite those dynamics. By following Dr. Maisel's battle-tested advice, you'll learn to maintain inner peace in the midst of family chaos and create a better life for your whole family.
"With gentle humor and compassion, Eric Maisel acts as a wise friend in this clear and practical guide that offers specific tools for navigating the roughest of family seas. It even helps you calm the waters! A wonderfully useful, unique, and comforting book."
Judith Schlesinger, PhD, author of The Insanity Hoax
"Eric Maisel rejects diagnostic labels in this insightful, practical, and extremely helpful book. Anyone should find his no-nonsense approach and practical tips useful."
James B. Gottstein, Esq., President of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
"Throughout this book, Dr. Maisel maintains a nonmedical and non-pathology theme, describing family problems as natural human phenomena rather than mental disorders. His eight skills are introduced and applied step-by-step within the context of several unique family cultures whose members unwittingly develop problematic ways of coping. This refreshing guide to overcoming interpersonal conflict wit
Chuck Ruby, PhD, executive director of the International Society for Ethical Psychology an
