THE FAMILY JOURNAL: COUNSELING AND THERAPY FOR COUPLES AND FAMILIESDisque, orrow / NAPIER INTERVIEW ❖ Interview Gus Napier: Reflections on the Field of Family Therapy

Dr. Augustus Napier, a respected pioneer in the field offamily therapy, received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina. He is the author, with some editorial assistance from the late Carl Whitaker, of The Family Crucible, a classic in the family ther-apy field. He is also the author of The Fragile Bond, an elo-quent and self-disclosive book about his marriage to and his cotherapy with family therapist Margaret Napier. Though currently retired from private practice, Dr. Napier remains active as a supervisor at The Family Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia; as a consultant at the Odyssey Family Counseling Center, also in Atlanta; and as a workshop leader. Gus and Margaret live in the mountains of North Carolina, where this edited interview was conducted by Dr. Graham Disque and Dr. Brent Morrow in May 1999. They are faculty members in the counseling program at East Tennessee State University