The process of family therapy began almost 100 years ago starting with Alfred Adler in Vienna. Since then many approaches to family counseling have been developed, this book will focus on 11 of those approaches. The main thing to consider when looking at the different approaches is the relevance to our own family-of-origin, this way we can be aware of our own family difficulties and avoid attempting to work out our personal family issues with every new family we encounter. An excellent example of taking family-of-origin into consideration is provided by the author who explains how her family dynamic affects her perspectives and hoe her education has influenced her way of thinking. Specifically learning from Alfred Adler, Ray Lowe, Rudolph
