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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Families And How To Survive Them by John Cleese and Robin Skynner”
★★⯪☆☆

This is a curious and mostly charming book about therapy. It is presented as a (somewhat contrived) Socratic dialogue between Skynner the teacher and Cleese the pupil. Skynner lectures on while Cleese interjects with "that's too clever to be…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/book-review-families-and-how-to-survive-them-by-john-cleese-and-robin-skynner/
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geraldew
geraldew
@geraldew@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Edent I read this book a very long time ago - I'll have to see if it is still on my shelves and check the edition to work out quite when that was.

It would be interesting to re-read it all these years later and see what I make of it.

Ditto for the psychology research and the practical therapy experience that I recall it quoting.

I've written this before reading your review, which I'm looking forward to.

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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@geraldew @Edent Yes! I read this when I was at secondary school, some, erm, 25ish years ago, I reckon.

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