- Hardcover
- Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (2 Sep 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0563365196
- ISBN-13: 978-0563365198
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,153,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dr Robin Skynner and John Cleese discussing important issues such as falling in love, different types of marriage, sex, babies, and toddlers. Illustrated by sketches from comedy classics such as Fawlty Towers, Butterflies and Porridge.
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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful
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John Cleese got together with the skilled family therapist Robin Skynner to try and explain what is meant by therapy and psychotherapy, and why so many of us need it - but equally deny it in ourselves.
Written as a conversational chat between the two, it's an fascinating description of how and why we fall in love, and how we develop from babies to adolescents to adults, and how during this development we so often become "stuck" in child-like behaviour.
I must admit I found myself and more importantly my relationships here in this book again and again, and almost everyone I've known who's bought the book has gone out and bought a dozen other copies for friends.
As a parent, it's a well written roadmap of your childs development, and as an adult, udoubtedly, required reading in order to graduate from "The University of Life".
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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I really enjoyed this book. I thought that the mixture of using a lay person who has experienced family problems and a practitioner of family therapy to write a book together was a really novel concept. It worked for me because it added that personal touch that elevated it above being a dreary text book about hypothetical families and their problems. It was quite humourous in places and I enjoyed that too. I wasn't sure what to expect with John Cleese, but I thought they got the balance just right.
38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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This book should be given out in senior schools to pupils, PRE marital relationships and child rearing. It is a complete eye opener and it explains relationships and how these are effected by past generations. It discusses dependency and defines boundaries, their purpose and how essential these are. This book provides one with essential clarity that assists via ownership and self development, towards the realisation of choices, individuality, change, health and empowerment. I would say that before reading this book, I had no clear understanding of just how important Fathers are, to the entire health of the family and that every Father MUST read this book! You are certainly NOT redundant!!! Written in easy to read, simple conversation format between John Cleese and his family therapist of (I believe) some 10 years. My thanks to both.
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