Brief family therapy may lead to deep personality change.

A 15 1/2-year-old boy with a falsetto voice and his family were treated by brief family therapy. The pace and direction of the patient's overall ego integration coincided closely with constant and rapid alteration of his conception of the human body. This change was clearly seen in his drawings done over aperiod of time. The authors suggest that deep personality changes may follow brief family therapy.

The reaction of the family system to rapid therapeutic change in one of its members.

The family system can accommodate itself only to a certain amount of change in one of its members without manifesting a need or reorganize itself. The family response to such a change in one of its members is documented via three case examples in patients who were in individual therapy.