Why Family Therapy...because It Deals With Family

It Is Now Clear To Me That The Family Is A Microcosm Of The World. To Understand The World, We Can Study The Family: Issues Such As Power, Intimacy, Autonomy, Trust, And Communication Skills Are Vital Parts Underlying How We Live In The World. To Change The World Is To Change The Family.

Rearing A Family Is Probably The Most Difficult Job In The World. It Resembles Two Business Firms Merging Their Respective Resources To Make A Single Product. All The Potential Headaches Of That Operation Are Present When An Adult Male And An Adult Female Join To Steer A Child From Infancy To Adulthood.

Put Together All The Existing Families And You Have Society. It Is As Simple As That. Whatever Kind Of Training Took Place In The Individual Family Will Be Reflected In The Kind Of Society That These Families Create.

Adolescents Are Not Monsters. They Are Just People Trying To Learn How To Make It Among The Adults In The World, Who Are Probably Not So Sure Themselves.

We Must Not Allow Other People's Limited Perceptions To Define Us.