Opening the door to collaboration with physicians / Rae J. Schilling and David L. Stoller -- Collaboration between family therapists and physicians: an interview with Thomas L. Campbell, MD / Susan H. McDaniel -- Families and AIDS: the medical family therapy approach / Jeri Hepworth, Susan H. McDaniel, and William J. Doherty -- Language, silence, and somatic fixation / David B. Seaburn -- Ethical issues in the treatment of families with chronically ill members / Micahel C. Gottlieb -- Personal ease, physical disease, and intergenerational family experience / Donald S. Williamson.