The Self in the Family: A Classification of Personality, Criminality, and Psychopathology

This book proposes a developmental theory of interpersonal competence that cites the family as the setting within which functional and psychopathological personality patterns are formed and nutured. The model views functional personal development, dysfunctional modes of adjustment, and criminality as all linked and emerging from experiences in the family milieu. Preventative and therapeutic implications of this theory are also addressed.