Brice Family Book Report

I think reading about the Brice family the main gist I took away from this reading is that. There is a lot of projection And transference of aggression just as Dr. Napier said in the book that when he was asking Don Brice Question about the situation in the family even before Claudia started to cause trouble in the family Don said “Mom doesn’t like it a bit that Dad works so much… he goes up to his study and shuts himself in and works some more…“So that’s one reason Mom gets so mad when Claudia goes and hides in her room....” and vise visa the two parents does have a problem in their marriage and we're using what they see as an alternative to their problem to substitute as the solution to the problem, but at the end of the day Carolyn Brice sees Claudia slipping away from …show more content…
Napier said Claudia is the sensitive one and she was just crying out for help for her family, but she does not know a better or a mature way to handle the situation which is definitely normal for a child (it could be difficult for an adult to handle such a situation as well just like in the case of the parent (i.e. Mr. and Mrs. Brice) handling their marriage wrong by putting pressure on their children and Claudia is a girl and the older child felt the impact the most. By the time they got to therapy everything they think was hidden from their children was actually visible, but in reverse hidden from the parent in particular because Don knew everyone's situation in the house, even little Laura was hiding a secret of her own constantly confuse and contemplation of her parents divorcing when her older sister took her own life. This must be a lot to handle for any child and it seem as if the children are actually handling it better than the adults that feel the need to control the