Volume 28, Number 16 · October 22, 1981
Something for Your Entire Family
By Victoria Hamilton
Foundations of Family Therapy: A Conceptual Framework for Systems Change
by Lynn Hoffman
Basic Books, 377 pp., $20.00
Foundations of Family Therapy is a fascinating encyclopedia of the history, schools, techniques, and masters of family therapy. During the past thirty years, family therapy has expanded into an organized and rigorous discipline within the larger field of mental health. Its theoretical scheme and its practical techniques and training contrast with those of other mental health disciplines, such as psychiatry, social work, psychoanalysis, and supportive forms of family counseling. Family therapy may be described as a movement: family therapists believe that their picture of mental disturbance is more 'true' to reality, superseding both traditional forms of therapy and contemporary therapies which center upon the individual client.
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