Contains discussions on such subjects as the ways in which people choose their mates, how the family social system can entrap its members in neurotic "games," and the complex nature of marital love. This book points out the numerous complexities of the interpersonal process. It also demonstrates the use of more sensitive research devices.

1: The Theory of Complementary Needs in Mate-Selection : An Analytic and Descriptive Study; 2: Psychological Patterning in Marriage; 3: Note on Need Complementarity in Marriage; 4: Reply to Levinger's Note; 5: Blue-Collar Families; 6: Psychological Study of Whole Families; 7: The Individual and the Larger Contexts; Discussion; 8: Family Interaction Patterns, Drug Treatment, and Change in Social Aggression; 9: Interaction Patterns of Parents and Hospitalized Sons Diagnosed as Schizophrenic or Nonschizophrenic; 10: Interaction Testing in the Measurement of Marital Intelligence