Includes bibliographical references and index.

Family therapy: the first twenty-five years / Philip J. Guerin, Jr. -- Chronicle of a struggle to establish a family unit within a community mental health center / James L. Framo -- Theory in the practice of psychotherapy / Murray Bowen -- Theoretical aspects and clinical relevance of the multi-generational model of family therapy / Philip J. Guerin, Jr. and Katherine Buckley Guerin -- Communication theory and clinical change / John Weakland -- Theoretical framework for family group therapy / John Elderkin Bell -- System concepts and the dimensions of self / Thomas F. Fogarty -- Hindrance of theory in clinical work / Carl Whitaker -- Including the children in family therapy / Donald A. Bloch -- A family is a four dimensional relationship / Carl Whitaker -- Family therapy with one person and the family therapist's own family / Elizabeth Carter and Monica McGoldrick Orfanidis -- Social networks as the unit of intervention / Carolyn L. Attneave -- Child-centered family / Mariano Barragan -- Family and social management of schizophrenia / C. Christian Beels -- Alcohol and the family system / David Berenson --

Sexual dysfunction and the family system / Lawrence S. Jackman -- Role of the family in the treatment of chronic asthma / Ronald Liebman ... [et al.] -- Marital crisis / Thomas Fogarty -- Family reaction to death / Murray Bowen -- Brief therapy with couples groups / Peggy Papp -- Multiple couple therapy / Ian E. Alger -- Principles and techniques of multiple family therapy / Murray Bowen -- Multiple family therapy / H. Peter Laqueur -- Co-therapy in the treatment of families / Michael Holt and Doris Greiner -- Underorganization in the poor family / Harry J. Aponte -- Evaluation of family system and genogram / Philip J. Guerin, Jr. and Eileen G. Pendagast -- Family choreography / Peggy Papp -- Use of the arts in family therapy: I never sang for my father / Philip J. Guerin, Jr. -- Breaking the homeostatic cycle / Lynn Hoffman -- Cross-confrontation / Norman L. Paul -- Integrating immediate video playback in family therapy / Ian Alger.