I. Family Research.- Family Interaction: Patterns Predictive of the Onset and Course of Schizophrenia.- The Finnish Adoptive Family Study: Adopted-Away Offspring of Schizophrenic Mothers.- The Rochester Risk Research Program: A New Look at Parental Diagnoses and Family Relationships.- II. The Treatment Setting.- How to Improve the Treatment of Schizophrenics: A Multicausal Illness Concept and Its Therapeutic Consequences.- Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia in Community Psychiatry: 2-Year Follow-up Findings and the Influence of Selective Processes on Psychotherapeutic Treatments.- The Open Hospital and the Concept of Limits.- Scientific Evidence and System Change: The Soteria Experience.- Community Work and Participation in the New Italian Psychiatric Legislation.- III. Individual Psychotherapy.- Clinical Considerations From Empirical Research.- Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Psychotherapy of the Schizophrenias.- Possibilities and Limits of Individual Psychotherapy of Schizophrenic Patients.- The Establishment of Transference in the Psychoanalysis of Schizophrenics.- Therapists Who Treat Schizophrenic Patients: Characterization.- IV. Family Therapy.- The Schizophrenic and His Family.- Reflections on the Family Therapy of Schizo-Present Families.- The Unconscious Transmission of Hidden Images and the Schizophrenic Process.- Brief Therapy of Schizophrenia.- A Psychoeducational Model of Family Treatment for Schizophrenia.- A New Method for Therapy and Research in the Treatment of Schizophrenic Families.- Final Discussion with Comments.