Based on the television program entitled: Bradshaw on--the family.

Overview: the crisis -- What almost no one knows about families: the family as a system -- Profile of a functional family system -- Profile of a dysfunctional family system -- Compulsive families: checklist for how you lost your self and became an adult child of an alcoholic family -- The persecuted: checklist for how you lost your self and became an adult child of a physically or sexually abusing family -- The bad child: checklist for how you lost your self and became an adult child of an emotionally abusing family -- The most common family illness--co-dependence: checklist for how you lost your self and became an adult child of any dysfunctional family -- Roadmap for recovering your disabled will Stage 1--willing to risk a new family of affiliation -- Roadmap for uncovering your lost self: stage II--breaking the original spell -- Roadmap for discovering you true self: stage III--spiritual awakening and empowerment.