"When Murray Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis. Between the years 1950 and 1959 at Menninger, and later at the National Institutes of Mental Health (as the first chief of family studies), he worked clinically with over 500 schizophrenics and their families. This extensive experience was a time of fruition for his thinking as he began to conceptualize human behavior as emerging from within the context of a family system. Later, at Georgetown University Medical School, Bowen worked to extend the application of his ideas to the neurotic family system. Initially he saw his work as an amplification and modification of Freudian theory, but later viewed it as revolutionary and distinct from that paradigm. Bowen has become one of the most renowned theorists and therapists in the field of family work, and this book encompasses the breadth and depth of his contributions. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

"A Jason Aronson book."

Treatment of family groups with a schizophrenic member (1957) --The role of the father in families with a schizophrenic parent (1959) -- Family relationships in schizophrenia (1959a) -- A family concept of schizophrenia (1960) -- Family psychotherapy (1961) -- Out-patient family psychotherapy (1961a) -- Intrafamily dynamics in emotional illness (1965) -- Family psychotherapy with schizophrenia in the hospital and private practice (1965a) -- The use of family theory in clinical practice (1966) -- Family therapy and family group therapy (1971) -- Principles and techniques of multiple family therapy (1971a) -- Alcoholism and the family (1974) -- Societal regression as viewed through family systems theory (1974a) -- Family therapy after 20 years (1975) -- Family reaction to death (1976) -- Theory in the practice of psychotherapy (1976) -- An interview with Murray Bowen (1976) -- Society, crisis, and systems theory (1973) -- Problems of medical practice presented by families with a schizophrenic member / by Robert H. Dysinger and Murray Bowen (1959b) -- Toward the differentiation of self in administrative systems (1972) -- On the differentiation of self (1972) -- Toward the differentiation of self in one's family of origin (1974).