Amazon.com description: Product Description: Many are in a state of identity confusion and crisis - spiritual destitution. A false self is substituted for the real self. The sad thing is that most don't know they are in this state of not knowing who they are! The result is unhealthy dependencies in relationships, families and organizations. We look to others to feel good about ourselves. How futile! Instead we find confusion, emptiness, loneliness, frustration and despair remaining within. Let’s Stand Up Straight helps us recognise this condition, offers hope in an effective recovery plan, making it possible for families to come together with each member knowing who they are, able to stand up straight on their own two feet, and able to relate to others in a healthy manner Bruce and Nellie Litchfield are in professional marriage and family therapy practice in Canberra, and also conduct accredited courses in family therapy throughout Australia. Bondage can be replaced by freedom, helplessness can be transformed into power, and shame can be turned into dignity. The concepts contained in this primer on recovery from dependencies can be used by both laypersons and counsellors. - Grant L Martin, PhD, Psychologist, lecturer and author. Seattle, USA. Author of When Good Things Become Addictions. The Litchfields have written a very practical and helpful manual on unhealthy dependencies. I recommend it highly.” - Dr Sandra Wilson. Lecturer, family counsellor, and author. Phoenix, A. Author of, Hurt People Hurt People, and The World According to me