We are directing our attention to and reporting primarily on our experience as a team of married cotherapists who work psycho-therapeutically with couples and intermittently with groups of couples. We also include our experiences and findings in working as individual therapists with marital partners seen as individuals and as a couple. One of us (M. M. B.) has been treating couples and families for 28 years and we have functioned as married cotherapists for 13 years.

We note here some of the many students of marriage from varied disciplines to whom we are personally and professionally in debt for the light they have cast on various aspects of the marital situation.

In 1950, Eliot's play “The Cocktail Party” vividly portrayed the interaction between two isolated, alienated people who have not made it together in marriage, nor have they made it with their