When is family therapy possible and meaningful? Who can facilitate it, and in what forms is it practiced? Horst-Eberhard Richter illustrates the significant opportunities, as well as some difficulties, of this healing method through authentic case histories and treatment examples. Richter provides factual information about family neuroses that can find their way out in unhappy marriages, painful family situations, school failures, depression, and physical ailments, and presents a promising solution to the challenges of family problems.