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How long does it take to read The Family Crucible?

Augustus Napier, Augustus Y. Napier, Carl Whitaker

The Family Crucible by Augustus Napier, Augustus Y. Napier, Carl Whitaker takes about 5 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 31 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1978. 301 pages, about 82,775 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 12 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 31 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 27 minutes

The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family's therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families-stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity--and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy.

Subjects: Family psychotherapy, Case studies, Cases, clinical reports, statistics, Thérapie familiale, Gezinstherapie, Family Therapy

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