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

Written by an expert in family studies, this book elaborates and expands on a developmental theory of interpersonal competence and socialization. It explores the development of the individual within the family and how the family provides the major setting within which personality is formed. Addressing both functional and dysfunctional personalities, it views personality development, criminality, and social adjustment as growing out of the family milieu. It presents preventive and therapeutic implications and crisis intervention.