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The author describes an unusual adaptation of object relations family therapy tailored to the requirements of symptomatic adult children, their long-divorced parents and their stepfamilies. He worked with the children on understanding their disturbed relationship as an identification with the pre-divorce parental couple. He brought the divorced couple together for sessions to rework their break-up and repair trauma to their children. He had sessions with the current stepfamily members. The design of the treatment called for moving gradually and thoroughly, back and forth, from past to present, interpersonal to intrapsychic, individual to group, and family to stepfamily.