Excellent condition with small wear and tear on the corner of the covers. 384 pages This notable work poignantly explains how a tool of family history―gathering the genogram, or a basic family tree―can help us to better understand and mend family relationships and dynamics. Here, fully updated for the first time, Monica McGoldrick's book elaborates on the ways in which genograms can reveal a family's history of estrangement, alliance, divorce, or suicide, exposing intergenerational patterns that prove more than coincidental. Weaving together photographs and genograms of famous families―including the Kennedys, the Freuds, and the Fondas―she 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.