Twentieth century trends in marriage and marital therapy / James Prochaska and Janice Prochaska -- Conceptualization of marriage and family dynamics from a psychoanalytic perspective / William W. Meissner -- Marital therapy from a psychoanalytic perspective / Carol Cooperman Nadelson with Thomas J. Paolino, Jr. -- Conceptualization of marriage from a behavioral perspective / Robert L. Weiss -- Marital therapy from a behavioral perspective / K. Daniel O'Leary and Hillary Turkewitz -- Conceptualization of marriage from a systems theory perspective / Peter Steinglass -- Marital therapy from a systems theory perspective / Carlos E. Sluzki -- Review of the research on the effectiveness of marital therapy / Neil S. Jacobson -- Contemporary marital therapies: a critique and comparative analysis of psychoanalytic, behavioral and systems theory approaches / Alan S. Gurman