pt. 1. Object relations in family therapy: Space for thinking in families / Sally Box ; History of family therapy / Susan Carvalho ; Some recent contributions to the lietrature / Sally Box ; The family and its dynamics / Margot Waddell -- pt. 2. At the boundary of family therapy: Introducing families to family work / Beta Copley ; Engaging in the process of change with fam, ilies at adolescence / Sally Box ; Reenactment as an unwitting professional response to family dynamics / Ronald Britton ; The significance of the outsider in families and other social groups / Anna Dartington -- pt. 3. Psychotherapy with families: Working with the dynamics of the session / Sally Box ; Making a soace for parents / Anna dartington and Jeanne Magagna ; Psychic pain and psychic damage / Gianna Williams ; The micro-environment / Arthur Hyatt Williams ; Transference with a single therapist / Beta Copley ; The aftermath of murder / Roger Kennedy and Jeanne Magagna ; Use of a ending to work with a a family's difficulty about differentiation / Nonie Insall.