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Brilliantly entertaining, enlightening and inspiring, Robin Skynner and John Cleese take on the big issue: life, and the challenge of living, in all its myriad forms.
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An essential guide to what makes individuals, families and organisations function in a healthy and positive way. This is the companion volume to the world-wide bestseller- Families and How to Survive Them.Brilliantly entertaining, enlightening and inspiring, Robin Skynner and John Cleese take on the big issue- life, and the challenge of living, in all its myriad forms. This book is an essential guide to surviving life's ups and downs - at home or in the workplace, as a member of a family or society.Presented in the same lively style as the best-selling Families and How to Survive Them, Life extends Skynner's and Cleese's study beyond the family to relationships and group interaction in life outside it. The book deals with such pithy issues as--Why life gives you all the lessons you need-How grief can be good for you-Why work is essential to our psychological health-What mid-life crisis means for youWe are all searching for healthier, happier, more satisfying lives, but it's the journey that matters, not the destination. Skynner and Cleese are the perfect travelling companions.
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Developing the ideas of Families and How to Survive Them, the authors have made an examination of organisations outside the home, and how they affect our lives. "It will surely sell like its predecessor." Valerie Grove, The Times.
Author Biography
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).
Review
Breathtaking. . . On every page of Life and How to Survive It you will find insights that will cut straight to the heart of your own life * Daily Mail *
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An essential guide to what makes individuals, families and organisations function in a healthy and positive way. This is the companion volume to the world-wide bestseller- Families and How to Survive Them.
Kirkus UK Review
A brilliant dialogue from the therapist-comedian duo which continues where their highly acclaimed Families and How to Survive Them left off. The pair distil the wisdom of modern psychology as applied to the modes of behaviour of exceptionally healthy, average and unhealthy people within families, communities and organizations. Their perceptions and insights are presented with refreshing clarity, using humour to make obvious the most serious points in an informal style remarkably free of psychobabble. (Kirkus UK)
Kirkus US Review
You'd think Monty Python creator Cleese tackling health, happiness, and life after death would make for hilarious reading. Well, think again. Cleese and family therapist Skynner have followed their successful Families and How to Survive Them (not reviewed) with a dialogue on healthy mental living. The gist of their theory boils down to the need for the parent and child in each of us to be well integrated and flexible. In a rote repartee that consists of leading questions and summations, Cleese and Skynner apply their psychological analysis to individuals, families, corporations, nations, and societies. But even with ITT and Karl Marx on the proverbial couch, Cleese's occasional jokes fall flat. Bud Handelsman's cartoons, which depend too heavily on the text, provide the only comic edge - for while the give and take of discussion might be invaluable in therapy, it is tiresome to read. The book's rambling format is all the more distressing because some of Cleese and Skynner's points are solid. They touch on everything from child rearing to the recipe for happy marriage, as well as grief, work fulfillment, near-death experiences, the Holocaust, and the current mayhem in Somalia. They cite an equally wide a range of sources, from a 30-year study of Harvard students to Plato, Coleridge, and Dale Carnegie. Many of their conclusions - e.g., that sexual experience before marriage can demystify sex and prevent conjugal infidelity, or that strong, hands-off leadership makes for both good business and happy families - are poppsych boilerplate. But Skynner's clinical experience gives such basic comments a bit more heft than they usually receive in popular magazines and on talk shows. If the "Parent" in the authors had been firmer with the "Child" and insisted on heavy editing and strong shaping, this work might have moved beyond self-help mediocrity. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Breathtaking. . . On every page of Life and How to Survive It you will find insights that will cut straight to the heart of your own life
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Breathtaking. . . On every page of Life and How to Survive It you will find insights that will cut straight to the heart of your own life
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An essential guide to what makes individuals, families and organisations function in a healthy and positive way. This is the companion volume to the world-wide bestseller- Families and How to Survive Them .
Details ISBN0749323205 Pages 432 Year 1996 Illustrator Bud Handelsman ISBN-10 0749323205 ISBN-13 9780749323202 Format Paperback Publication Date 1996-06-24 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 150 Birth 1939 Author Dr Robin Skynner Media Book Language English Publisher Ebury Publishing Imprint Cedar Books Illustrations 1 UK Release Date 1996-06-24 AU Release Date 1996-06-24 NZ Release Date 1996-06-24 Alternative 9781446490716 Audience General We've got this
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