Family Conflict

About the Book

This book about Family Conflict aims to help couples an dparents to understand and resolve conflicts between partners, between parents and children and between siblings. It will also be useful to professionals who try to help their clients and patients to deal with family conflict. The book has at least three claims to originality. Firstly, it uses a holistic perspective, so that, whereas most if not all previous accounts of family conflict deal separately with conflicets between the marital couple, between parents and children and between siblings, this book integrates te treatment of conflict among all family members. SEcondly, it applies theories from the study of international and other kinds of conflicts and from the study of small group and divorce dynamics to families. Thirdly, it views conflicts as originating not only within the personalities of family members but also within the economic and political structures of their society.

The author narrows the field of concern to serious and harmful family conflicts, and examines its forms, causes, consequences, cycles, and suggests the means by which many kinds of harmful conflicts can be resolved and harmony restored.

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