Family and authority / Christopher Lasch and discussants -- Cultural forms and psychoanalysis / Peter Barham -- Symmetry and soporifics / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Depressed women / Sue Holland and Ray Holland -- Rationalisation and the family / Joel Kovel -- Schizoid states and the market / Barry Richards -- The parent to the child / Stephen Robinson -- Relational preconditions of socialism / Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin