Cover -- Copy Right -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: A systems-centered approach to individual and group therapy -- CHAPTER TWO: Getting started: initial interviews in systems-centered therapy -- CHAPTER THREE: Systems-Centered Therapy (SCT) applied to short-term group and individual psychotherapy -- CHAPTER FOUR: Functional subgrouping in systems-centered groups and the theory from which it emerged -- CHAPTER FIVE: Changing horses in mid-stream: introducing SCT methods of functional subgroups and early phase defense modification to long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy groups -- CHAPTER SIX: Systems-centered therapy and spiritual life and practice -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Roles -- CHAPTER EIGHT: When the group really is a family: application of systems-centered therapy techniques to family therapy -- CHAPTER NINE: Unsystemic postscript: SCT and existentialism -- REFERENCES.