Includes bibliographical references and index

The concept of the triangle in Bowen theory: an overview / Peter Titelman -- The regulatory function of the triangle / Laurie L. Lassiter -- Triadic relationships in nonhuman primate family systems / Lynn A. Fairbanks -- Bowen's effort to differentiate a self: detriangling from triangles and interlocking triangles / Peter Titelman -- Exploring emotional triangles in past generations of a family / James B. Smith -- Triangles at the time of a chronic illness and death / Anthony J. Wilgus -- Efforts to understand early triangles in the therapist's extended family / James C. Maloni -- Triangles revisited / Jack LaForte -- Observation of triangles in a human-canine pack / Linda M. Fleming -- Triangles in marriage / Phillip Klever -- Child focus: triangles that come and stay / Eva Louise Rauseo -- Triangles in stepfamilies / Kathleen Cotter Cauley -- Triangles in families with substance abusing teenagers / Anne S. McKnight -- A family affair: triangles in extramarital relationships / Eileen B. Gottlieb -- Sibling triangles and leadership in a family business / Peter Titelman -- The business of triangles / Leslie Ann Fox -- Triangles in the academy / Ona Cohn Bregman -- Triangles in societal emotional process with an example from the Russian Revolution / Katharine Gratwick Baker -- The triangle as the cornerstone of the government of the United States of America / Edward W. Beal -- Triangles, leadership, and the United States Supreme Court / Ann V. Nicholson -- 9/11: societal emotional process and interlocking triangles / Carol Moran