DR. COUNTS PRESENTS a thesis based on three premises which would orient a clinician solely towards individual psychoanalytic therapy. He argues from the standpoint that there is a dichotomy between the intrapsychic and the interpersonal; that there is a dichotomy between individual psychotherapy and family therapy; and that individual therapy is somehow more profound, and consequently more valuable, than family therapy. We take issue with all these premises.

Sullivan pointed out that there is no way of observing what goes on inside a person's psyche. We can only observe what takes place operationally between the patient and ourselves as therapists, or between the subject person and significant others in his life. It is our belief that family (and other natural human systems) theory is the logical next step following Sullivanian interpersonal theory. Sullivan also emphasized the meaning to a person throughout his life of early interpersonal and heuristic developmental stages. Mother, father, siblings, peers of the same sex, peers of