From Psyche to System

John R. Neill, University of Kentucky College of Medicine. David P. Kniskern, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

• Foreword, Preface, PART ONE: BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF CARL WHITAKER, MD PART TWO: PSYCHOTHERAPY My Philosophy of Psychotherapy; Three Types of Craziness; The Psychotherapeutic Impasse with John Warkentin and Nan Johnson; Guest Editorial: The Impasse; The Administrative Ending in Psychotherapy The Use of Aggression in Psychotherapy Training for the Unreality Experience; The Role of Silence in Brief Psychotherapy with Jerman W. Rose, Frank N. Geiser and Nan Johnson; Communication in Brief Psychotherapy with the Nonpsychotic Patient; First-Stage Techniques in the Experiential Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients with Richard E. Felder, Thomas P. Malone and John Warkentin; Preverbal Aspects of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics; The Contribution of Individual and Family Therapy to the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia; PART THREE: TRAINING AND GROWTH OF THE THERAPIST The Ongoing Training of the Psychotherapist; Multiple Therapy and Its Variations; The Commitment to Intimacy; When Not to Share Yourself with a Patient Group Encounter: The Now Self of Me Letter: Sauna Bath and Snow Plunge PART FOUR: MARITAL THERAPY Functions of Marriage; Psychotherapy with Couples; Psychotherapy of Married Couples; Psychotherapy of Marital Conflict; A Re-evaluation of "Psychiatric Help" when Divorce Impends with H. Milton PART FIVE: FAMILY THERAPY Objectives of Family Treatment; The Technique of Family Therapy; Countertransference in the Family Treatment of Schizophrenia with Richard E. Felder and John Warkentin; Acting Out in Family Psychotherapy; The Symptomatic Adolescent-An AWOL Family Member; Power Politics of Family Psychotherapy; Symbolic Sex in Family Therapy; Process Techniques of Family Therapy with the collaboration of Augustus Y. Napier; A Family Is a Four-Dimensional Relationship; The Hindrance of Theory in Clinical Work Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy with David V. Keith PART SIX: GATHERINGS ENVOI