These are some of the issues addressed by the Kardeners in Breaking Free: How Chains From Childhood Keep Us From What We Want. * Why do our best intentions so often go awry? * What prompts people to engage in behaviors that have the opposite outcome from what they wished to have happened? * What attracts us to our mates and then alienates us from them--only to find similar difficulties in subsequent relationships? * How and why do we get in our own way of success? What contributes to distress within a person, between people, communities and nations?
