“…Treatment of schizophrenics becomes treatment of the family in which he resides. To cite a typical approach, a pair of recent papers not only advocated the treatment of children and parents together, but also went on to recommend seven treatment avenues to these parents and their children (3,4). The over-all view taken by family therapists is that the schizophrenic in treatment bears with him an inventory of cognitions and perceptions concerning his family, that each of these stored cognitions and perceptions are charged with affect, and that they are, therefore, strongly instrumental in his existing behavior.…”