1. Introduction: A four-step model for assessing families and couples -- pt. 1: Troubled children and their parents. 2. The parentified child -- 3. Conflictual couple / triangulated children -- pt. 2: Stepfamilies. 4. The teenager who was a liar -- 5. Three dyads are less than a whole family -- pt. 3: Complementary couples. 6. Agitated depression in an adult woman -- 7. The woman whose hands were always dirty -- pt. 4: Psychosomatic families. 8. Oedipus with stomach cramps -- 9. A young Chinese man with anorexia nervosa -- pt. 5: The family and social services. 10. Three generations of women -- 11. Residual treatment of drug addiction and the family.