Psychoanalytic family therapy. A challenge to be faced.

From a highly personal perspective, Horst-Eberhard Richter attempts to show that the application of psychoanalytic theory to fan-lily and group proces ses in general is anything but a random, or indeed questionable, extension of the scope of psychoanalysis. He contends that this extension is imperati ve if psychoanalysis is not to rigidify - or rather, if it is not to become even more rigid than it has already.