IThe bestselling guide for understanding how your family made you, and how you can make yourself even better. 'Excellent' - Brendan O'Connor, RTÉ Radio One 'I loved it' - Síle Seoige, Ready to Be Real * * * Our early years at home are when we lay down the blueprint for being a partner, parent, sibling, friend, colleague, neighbour, and even a citizen. Home is where we become who we are. Even the best of childhoods is imperfect. And if there were difficulties - whether due to simple personality clashes, or issues such as authoritarian parenting, family break-up, illness, loss or addiction - it may be an ongoing struggle to manage our moods and emotions, though we may have no idea why. Psychotherapist Richard Hogan has seen it all when it comes to how the early years shape us - and he knows we can work on ourselves to rewrite the blueprint. In this book he draws on extensive research and thousands of conversations in the therapy room to explain how. Packed full of eye-opening and liberating ideas, fascinating case studies and practical tools, Home is Where the Start Is also includes a remarkable account of Richard's own challenges as a child and teenager. He knows exactly what it's like to face the past squarely, grapple with the legacy of childhood unhappiness and work on creating a better future. Home is Where the Start Is will help you become the best version of yourself you can be. And it is an invaluable source of advice for parents to give your child the best possible start. * * * 'Filled with articulate and fundamentally encouraging advice' - Sunday Independent 'A book of hope' - RSVP 'An essential guide for anyone who wants to break free from the cycles of family dysfunction' - Irish Examiner 'Refreshing . . . for everyone who's interested in simply living better, with a little more stress and a lot more joy' - Anglo-Celt

One of the most gifted and creative psychoanalysts of his generation, D. W. Winnicott made lasting contributions to our understanding of the minds of children.

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Ary Long is a conspiracy theorist, Jordan Burke is a science guy - and never the twain shall meet . . . until, through chance encounter and a bizarre symbol, their lives take an extraordinary turn. Thrown together by a mysterious group and hunted by their bitter enemies, the unlikely pair scour the globe searching for the roots of the ancient symbol, uncovering the reality behind the existing world order and the arcane, metaphysical wisdom known as Logos. 13,000 years of exploitation 3 months to put it right HISTORY IS NOT WHAT YOU BELIEVE

As the daughter of a drug-addicted mother and a child-molesting father, author Augusta Rain had the odds stacked against her from the beginning. In Skeletons Revealed, she narrates the story of her rocky upbringing and shares events she has kept secret for many years. In this memoir, Rain confronts the skeletons of her past a young girl's cry for help as she releases her secrets one by one in an effort to stop the cycle of abuse. The youngest of six, she tells how she kept the secrets to protect her family at all costs. Skeletons Revealed tells how Rain and her siblings often lived with no food, electricity, or water, and how they endured being battered, drugged, and raped. The true story of a survivor, Skeletons Revealed encourages others to gain the courage, break the silence, and speak out and act against abuse. It communicates that there comes a time to take a stand and control your own destiny. You can't control your future unless you make peace with your past.