Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of psychoanalysis to family therapy.

This book gives individual psychotherapists a way of using dynamic listening and interpreting when working with couples and families, and it offers family therapists the powerful tools of psychoanalysis to deepen their understanding and skills. -- Samuel Slipp, M.D.
In Object Relations Family Therapy, David and Jill Scharff offer the most in-depth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of modern psychoanalytic theory to family therapy to be found to date. . . . Recently the field is showing a reawakened interest in the psychodynamics of family relationships, and the Scharffs' book heralds this remarriage of concern with the inner and outer lives of people. I believe that he publication of this book is a significant event; it will become a modern classic. -- Alan A. Gurman Ph.D.

David E. Scharff is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult and child psychiatry, as well as a former president of AASECT. He is the author of The Sexual Relationship and co-author of Between Two Worlds: The Transition from School to Work. Jill Savege Scharff is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult and child psychiatry. She is the editor of Foundations of Object Relations Family Therapy.

Foundations of object relations family therapy; adolescent development in the family context; shared unconscious fantasy and projective identification; the analytic group-interpretive approach; integration of individual and family therapy; an object relations appraoch to sexuality in family life; object relations family therapy.