[Multi-family groups].

During the last 25 years the author has been a leader of six multi-family groups. The first started in close connection with a psychiatric emergency unit with up to 11 families at the same time. Later, treatment has been defined for four up to six families with generation problems. The patients were children with drug addiction or psychosis, mostly schizophrenia. The dynamic steps of the therapeutic process were information, support, discussion insight and change.