D. Families and Marriage

This 6 volume set offers illuminating insights and observations on the nature of familial relationships. Amongst the texts reprinted are The Child and Family by eminent psychoanalyst D.A. Winnicott, and Elizabeth Bott's Family and Social Network, regarded as a classic sociological study of the family and acknowledged as one of the main sources for the development of social network theory. Other areas covered include social expectations of husband and wife relationships, explorations of parent and child relationships, psychological effects of illness within the family, psychosomatic disorders, personality development and mental health.