1. Introduction -- 2. Family Role and Identity Formation -- 3. Passivity and Failure of Identity Formation -- 4. Some Thoughts on Family Relationships in Contemporary Society -- 5. Family Interaction and the Sick Role -- 6. Childbirth, the Family, and Breakdown -- 7. An Approach to a Family Study of Childbirth -- 8. Observations on the Psychotherapy of Puerperal Breakdown -- 9. Puerperal Breakdown and Defensive Organisation -- 10. Dread of Envy as an Etiological Factor in Puerperal Breakdown -- 11. The Husband-Wife Relationship in Cases of Puerperal Breakdown -- 12. The Concept of Maternal Love -- 13. An Interpretation of Modern Obstetric Practice -- 14. Taboo and Illness -- 15. Psychoanalysis - Freudian or Existential -- 16. On Setting up a Psychotherapy Training Scheme -- 17. The Teaching of Psychotherapy