Conjoint marriage therapy with a husband-and-wife team.

Husband-and-wife therapists treating couples conjointly add a dimension of reality not available with unmarried co-therapists. This paper discusses the advantages of heterosexual therapy with couples. It then describes the differentness of transference and identification when the therapists are also a couple, the problems of tension between the therapists, selection of therapist couples, and the personality patterns of patients treated.