Family and How to Survive in It

Nothing strange about the title, right? This bestseller is written by a renowned English psychiatrist (psychoanalysis, systemic family and group psychotherapy, academic achievements, and the highest professional authority) and his former patient, a humorist and well-known comic actor.

The dialogue between these remarkable gentlemen is easy and charming, and the topic concerns everyone. As the old joke goes, "a good thing cannot be called a marriage." 

This is what they discuss: why even a happy family can find it so difficult, where family problems come from, how children "inherit" them to create problems in their own families, and how one can stop this conveyor and change something for the better. Also: about family tyranny and tyrants, the benefits of quarrels (not any kind), about the psychological "divorce" from parents, about children's and adult sexual problems and much more. 

Normal human language does not prevent the book from being deeply and subtly professional. And all of this is richly spiced with dry and brilliant English humor. 

In general, no one has read such a book in Russian yet: it can be a discovery for both professionals (doctors, psychologists) and the "man on the street".