A Time for Healing: Dysfunctional Families: How They Mismanage to Get That Way, and What We Can Do to Break the Cycle of Abuse Book

Contents

In Memoriam....................v
The Gardner Family Tree: A Genogram....................viii
Definitions of some commonly used terms in A Time for Healing....................xi
Preface and Acknowledgments....................xv
Introduction....................1
Chapter One: Our Parents....................81
Chapter Two: Family Communication....................159
Chapter Three: The Family....................225
Chapter Four: Leadership....................287
Chapter Five: Family Apartheid....................305
Chapter Six: The 1997 Family Reunion....................381
Chapter Seven: The Limited, Angry, and Suppressive Inner Circle, Eve, Matthew, and Peter....................409
Chapter Eight: Eve....................535
Chapter Nine: Matthew....................553
Chapter Ten: Peter....................579
Chapter Eleven: Where Do We Go From Here? Continued Chaos or Unity?....................653
Index....................695