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Part 1 Re-membering the family. Part 2 A feminist critique of eight approaches to family therapy: Nathan Ackerman - the patriarch's legacy; Murray Bowen - the politics of rational man; Virginia Satir - the limitations of humanism I; Salvador Minuchin - the matter of functionalism; Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy - the limitations of humanism II; strategic family therapy - perfecting the unexamined life; Carl Whitaker - playing with patriarchy; Milan systemic therapy - the myth of mythlessness. Part 3 History and insight - toward a feminist theory of psychotherapy with families: the family in history - gender and structure in five types of families from antiquity to the present; a critique of the cybernetic epistemology of Gregory Bateson; psychoanalytic theory as a conceptual source for feminist psychotherapy with families. Part 4 Care and interpretation - toward a feminist practice of psychotherapy with families: the DeWitts - the case of a therapist in transition; the McGinns - irrational mom and a method to madness; the Johnsons - dreams, introjects, and the black family.