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Title: Characterological Aspects of Marital Interaction
Author: Peter L. Giovacchini, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois and on the Clinical Staff of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has published extensively on creativity, psychosomatic problems and the treatment of characterological problems, using an ego psychological perspective focusing primarily on object relationships. An overall view of his attitudes about the treatment of marital problems is found in The Treatment of Marital Disharmonies. Psychoanalytic Treatment of Characterological and Schizophrenic Disorders, which he co-authored with L. Bryce Boyer, has just appeared.
Margaret S. Mahler, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and faculty member of the New York and Philadelphia Psychoanalytic institutes. She is on the Postgraduate Training Faculty of the Connecticut State Department of Mental Health and is Director of Research, Masters Children's Center. Her scientific work and publications have centered around tics, infantile psychoses, and research in normal separation-individuation. Her two-volume study On Human Symbiosis: The Vicissitudes of Individuation will be published soon.
Victor H. Rosen, M.D.
Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association; formerly on faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Medical Director and Consultant of its Treatment Center. Dr. Rosen now teaches at Albert Einstein Medical School. He has published extensively on psychiatric and psychoanalytic subjects and has been interested in changes in family equilibrium occurring as the result of therapy.
Eric Berne, M.D.
Consultant in Group Therapy at the McAuley Neuropsychiatric Clinic in San Francisco, Lecturer in Group Therapy at the Langley-Porter Clinic, and Secretary of the International Transactional Analysis Association. His books include Transactional Analysis, Games People Play, and Principles of Group Treatment. His aim i