This volume reflects over 30 years of collaborative clinical research, practice, and teaching by a group of analysts committed to the extension of psychoanalytic thinking to the treatment of the family. Scharff's skillful editing helps the reader experience the evolution and development of this group's current object relations family therapy approach. While further integration with other branches of psychoanalytic theory (e.g., structural theory and self psychology) remains ahead, the present volume provides ample theoretical and technical support for the psychoanalytically oriented clinician working with families.

In her introduction, the editor notes that the group's approach necessarily developed outside of mainstream analytic thought because "in the 1950's and 1960's American psychoanalysis … did not lend