Home Is Where The Start Is

Description

A ground-breaking framework for understanding how your family made you, and how you can make yourself even better The modern family is one of the most complicated systems we navigate as children and parents. In Home is Where the Start Is, leading family psychotherapist Richard Hogan teaches you how to free yourself from negative family experiences you have had in the past, to find true happiness and meaning in the future. Packed with fascinating case studies from Richard's clinical practice, he offers innovative, proactive and practical strategies for dealing with a wide range of issues; whether you have experienced authoritarian parenting, the effects of addiction, or estrangement, this book will give you the tools to recognise negative patterns from childhood, and avoid them when it comes to making your own family. This is the essential guide for anyone who wants to break free from cycles of dysfunction and create great relationships.

Richard Hogan is a psychotherapist who specializes in working with families. He is from Cork and after getting an English degree from UCC he spent his early working life as a secondary school teacher. His classroom experiences prompted him to retrain as a psychotherapist. He has been in practice for a decade and is clinical director of the Therapy Institute in Dublin. Richard is the recipient of a Fulbright Award and is completing a PhD exploring the intersection between psychological models of the family and educational theory, with a particular focus on inclusion. He writes a weekly Irish Examiner column about the mental health issues of teenagers, couples and families and makes frequent TV and radio appearances, including as a regular contributor to Brendan O'Connor on RT Radio 1. His first book was Parenting the Screenager. Richard lives in Dublin with his family.