You Can Go Home Again

This book is stunning in its power to inform and enrich our understanding of the family we landed in, and to shake up the fixed stories we tell ourselves about the people who comprise it. The page-turning stories about famous families are so captivating that you may not notice how much you are learning about family system theory, and how relationships get stuck over generations in distance, conflict, triangling, labeling, cutoffs, and the like. Yet the magic of this book goes beyond its extraordinary scholarship on family functioning. You Can Go Home Again will open your heart and move you to a more accurate, curious, compassionate, and courageous view of yourself, as well as the heroes, villains, and just plain folks who comprise your family history. To read this book, which you (and your therapist) must do, is to become an expert on that fascinating dance we call family as you re-vision your past and move forward into your relational future in bold new ways.–Harriet Lerner, PhD, author of The Dance of Anger

Tracey Laszloffy, PhD, LMFT, director of the Center for Healing Connections, lives in Norwich, Connecticut.

Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD, Director of the Multicultural Family InstituteTeacher and on the Clinical Faculty of the Psychiatry Department of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is the “godmother of genograms.” She has an international reputation as a trainer and author, and lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.