This article presents an overview of the primary contributions of the late Don D. Jackson. It analyzes and attempts to unify the central concepts of what the first referred to as "conjoint family therapy." Emphasis in upon the theoretical components leading to the development of a behaviorally oriented, nontransference, focused-treatment format, labeled by the author as "family interactional psychotherapy."

The Clinical Exchange invites eminent clinicians of diverse persuasions to share, in ordinary language, their clinical formulations and treatment plans of the same psychotherapy patient-one not selected or nominated by those therapists-and then to discuss points of convergence and contention in their recommendations. This special Exchange focuses on family systems psychotherapy in the case of a family presenting with the identified patient being a 5-year-old who had cried every day for 3 years since the death of her father. Therapists Catherine Fuchs and Pam Fishel-Ingram (psychodynamic orientation with some integration of cognitive-behavioral therapy concepts), George S. Greenberg (brief systemic family therapy with a strategic therapy focus), Patricia Morse (Milan school of family systems therapy), and Scott Griffies (psychoanalytic object relations) are the featured commentators. Finally, Martin Drell, the case contributor, provides a few closing comments.

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