Maurizio Andolfi, MD, is a child psychiatrist and a world-renowned master family therapist. He was Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University la Sapienza, Rome, and co-founder of the European Family Therapy Association, and is currently Director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia Rome. Andolfi is editor of Journal Terapia Familiare and has previously published many books including Please, Help Me with This Family, (Routledge, 1994). In 2016, Andolfi received the Life Achievement award from the American Family Therapy Academy.

• Introduction 1. THE ROOTS OF RELATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2. THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE AND THE MULTIGENERATIONAL DIMENSION 3. SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND NEW FAMILY FORMS 4. FAMILY OBSERVATION METHODS 5. TOWARD AN ASSESSMENT OF FAMILY FUNCTIONING 6. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE THERAPEUTIC STORY 7. THE LANGUAGE OF THE THERAPEUTIC ENCOUNTER 8. BODY LANGUAGE IN FAMILY THERAPY 9. SILENCE AND TOUCH: TWO POWERFUL WAYS TO CONNECT 10. THE HUMAN DIMENSION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND RESEARCH

'This book is a treasure! I welcome it, not least because Maurizio Andolfi has an international reputation as an experienced and inspirational trainer and practitioner, but also because he revisits and reclaims the origins of family therapy and systemic practice, in their conceptual roots in multi-generational family therapy. Whether the legacies of the past are realised in the present or echoes that haunt us, Andolfi reminds us that they are ever present in our therapeutic work with families, and through his many examples from practice, he shows us how to go on.' - Arlene Vetere, PhD, Professor of family therapy and systemic practice. VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway