Families And How To Survive Them
$37.04
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 March 1993
Summary
The super-selling book on surviving family life, Families and How to Survive Them, by psychiatrist Robin Skynner and comedian John Cleese, has sold over a quarter of a million copies worldwide.
What makes a family happy? Why do some marriages ‘succeed’ and others end in divorce? How can we free ourselves from the legacy of past mistakes and bring about positive change? Love, sex and marriage and parenthood, depression and sadness, independence and experience are just a few of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749314101 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0749314109 |
| Author: | John Cleese, Dr Robin Skynner |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Cedar Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 1993 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Cedar Books |
About The Author
John Cleese
John Cleese (Author)
John Marwood Cleese was born in 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare. He studied Law at Cambridge University and has enjoyed a successful career in comedy, theatre, film and television.
He first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films- And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.
In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. He has appeared in many other films, including the James Bond films, Harry Potter and Shrek and has guest-starred in numerous TV shows.
Robin Skynner (Author)
Robin Skynner qualified in medicine at University College Hospital, London. He has been a pioneer in group and family techniques of treatment and one of the founders of both the Institute of Group Analysis and Institute of Family Therapy (London).
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