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Debra

What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate!

I am constantly shocked and reminded just how easy it is to hurt or be hurt by our loved ones due to problems of communication. Communication is supposed to consist of both talking and listening in somewhat equal measure. But regrettably, sometimes there is one but not the other. Sound familiar? In some families, everyone […]

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Don MacMannis, Ph.D.
Debra Manchester MacMannis, M.S.W.

Don and Debra are a team both at home and at the office. Married for thirty years and parents of two sons, they are psychotherapists who have simultaneously served as directors of the Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara. In addition to nationwide lectures on families, they have provided postgraduate training to hundreds of therapists. Read More >>

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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate!

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